Category: Mental Health

Mental health in kids is rarely simple, and rarely fits into just one neat label. For our kiddos, it can feel like everything is layered on top of everything else. Anxiety, tics, compulsions, emotional regulation struggles, and trauma responses don’t always show up separately or take turns. They can overlap, interact, and sometimes make it …

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and if there’s one thing many parents know, it’s this: supporting our kids’ mental and emotional health can feel complicated — especially when your child has a disability. Is this a tough day? A tough season? Or something bigger? When your child processes, communicates, or expresses emotions differently, it …

Mental health is a critical part of every child’s well-being — but for children with disabilities, it’s often overlooked or misunderstood. In this episode, Undivided’s Head of Content, Lindsay Crain, sits down with Dr. Lauren Stutman, Clinical Director and Founder of CARE-LA, to unpack the unique mental health challenges faced by children with disabilities. They …

Back-to-school season means more than new teachers and schedules — it’s all the big and small ways we try to keep our kids safe, healthy, and regulated every day. And as our kids grow, each new school year brings fresh (and sometimes overwhelming) challenges. Wouldn’t it be great if there were a guidebook for handling …

When wildfires hit the Los Angeles area early this year, it was a wake-up call for many of us in the Undivided community. If you’re raising a child with a disability, you already know how much planning and support goes into your daily life. And during a natural disaster, those needs don’t go away. In …

While school offers plenty of opportunities for kids to have fun, engage in extracurricular activities, and learn new things, it can also feel extra vulnerable, and sometimes downright scary — especially for our kiddos. Socializing and making friends is daunting enough, but what if they’re also feeling like they just can’t fit it, or they’re …

With summer slowly coming to an end (yes, we can hardly believe it too!), we’re preparing for our kids’ first day, week, and month of school — and not just academically. The slow journey of getting back to school is often filled with a whole bag of feelings for our kids, who, beyond the typical …

When a child is struggling with their mental or emotional health, it can be hard — and sometimes utterly terrifying — for parents to know how to help (and with added complications when they also have a developmental disability). How do we tell the difference between a crisis situation and emotions that are a normal …