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In 2016, my family was featured in a national UK newspaper about our homeschooling journey (see this link here:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/family/hating-the-new-sats-meet-the-mums-who-chose-home-education-over/ ) Today, I appear on a national podcast in the US, focusing on the differences and changes when homeschooling in the UK and now US. Please share the link to it - Vicki Tillman and the gang at 7sistershomeschool.com offer a wonderful support group for homeschoolers at all stages, being veterans with many years of experience under their belts. You can even subscribe to their podcasts, and their recent series about reading and writing for high schoolers was very interesting. http://ultimateradioshow.com/hshsp-ep-65-homeschooling-in-uk-and-us/

Hi all young adults! This blog is specially for you, with lots of affection from me. As a fellow senior citizen of our society,I care for your happiness,success in life as well as profession, before you reach adulthood.I am sure some of you may be looking for guidance in life just like I did when I was a young adult.Hence I put forth a few points to ponder over and keep in mind. Here they are! Each one of you is intelligent.Hence I have not elaborated much.Do your best and progress from good to great in every area of your life!

Hi, Stumbled over your report and blog a few weeks back and a lot of things fell into place regarding our now 9 year old daughter. We're now trying to work through some of your suggestions.  Thinking there may be a dietary trigger in that the last few meltdowns have followed chocolate or very sweet puddings at restaurants. Could this be a trigger? One other question. Tonight's meltdown came after a lovely day when we told her it was bedtime. She instantly switched off to us and became increasingly agitated. Despite trying to explain and to reason with her she focused on any negativity. Left alone she has calmed and gone to bed. However she shares a room with a younger sister - something she wanted to do - and has scared her to the point we had to remove the younger sister to our room in order to resettle her. This is not ideal. So, any bedtime meltdown tips please? Grateful for any help. Hi, bedtime can trigger a meltdown because a child may not want to stop whatever she is doi...

Dear Dr. Gottlieb, At age 4 or 5, my once happy child started having more angry outbursts and oppositional behaviors along with anxiety. Since the initial episodes were fairly low in intensity and frequency and were easily mitigated with humor or social-emotional strategies, I didn't think much of it and chalked it up to growing older and being faced with increased frustrations.  But that all changed this winter, when he morphed into a very angry and anxious child. The smallest frustration caused huge angry and aggressive outbursts. Separation became a problem. Any strategies previously learned were useless in the moment and did not seen to stick for long. I was at a complete loss and motherly instinct told me there was something seriously wrong that was not externally based.  After lots of research, I had him checked for strep due to behavioral symptoms. He was positive and to my shock and relief after a few days of antibiotics, I was seeing my old articulate and happy son re...