Author Archive for Phyllis Wheeler

Sleep may be elusive for you. In fact, it may be getting more elusive as time goes by. Perhaps all you need to change is some habits you may have picked up.

If you are planning a vacation, you may be looking for fun in the sun. One of the places you could consider might be Hawaii.

You may be wondering how you can make the Internet safe for your kids. You’d like to protect them from the objectionable sites and emails that would be so easy for them to find.

Here’s the issue: how to be sure your kids are safe from viewing objectionable sites when they are searching the Internet. After all, you don’t want them to stumble across something they should not see.

In Star Trek, the logical mind of Mr. Spock contrasts with the emotional minds of everyone else. But this is fiction. In reality, each of us needs to be both logical and emotional.

You have discovered that your child has Asperger’s Syndrome, like many other children. Asperger’s is on the “autism spectrum,” which means that a child can be a little bit autistic, or odd-normal, or a lot autistic and quite impaired. Asperger’s is somewhere there between the extremes. Now that you know this, you want your child to move toward the more normal end of the spectrum. If you work with him and bolster his self-confidence, you may help him become more normal. If you don’t help him, the world will drain his self-confidence.