Author Archive

• When to Take Time Out from College
  The semester has barely started and some students are already wondering whether they should ...
• Parenting Well Means Being Well Prepared
  The International Day for Disaster Reduction is October 12. And my thoughts are turning more that direction than toward Halloween ...
• When Friends Become Housemates: Making it Work
  Sharing space can be a wonderful first step to independent living. It can be ...
• Why Friends Disappear When Crisis Turns Chronic
  It’s a common experience: Something goes wrong in a family. A child is diagnosed ...
• Starting a New School Year Following a Summer of Change
  Kids’ backpacks don’t only contain their lunches and homework. If their lives aren’t stable, their cares ...
• 5 Wrong Reasons for Going to College
  It’s the summer before college. You’ve been preparing for it for years -- studying, researching ...
• Success in College Despite Learning Disabilities
  It happens every semester. A freshman shyly approaches me after the first class with the form from the advising center ...
• Helping Your Child Transition from Elementary to Middle School
  Sixth grade graduation in my community is a big deal. At each elementary school, the kids put ...
• The Top 5 Housemate Complaints
  It seemed like a good idea at the time. Four friends who have known each other since freshman ...
• Sharing Space: Rooming House, Cooperative or Collective?
  Sharing space can be a wonderful first step to independent living. Whether single or ...
• 7 Mistaken Assumptions Angry People Make
  “I guess I have an anger problem. I lose my temper pretty quick. But it’s not ...
• How to be a Friend Indeed to a Friend in Need
  Friendship is easy when friends ...
• Daughters Need Fathers, Too
  Fathers, be good to your daughters Daughters will love like you do ~ "Daughters," by John Mayer We hear a lot about ...
• 5 Ways to Solve All Your Problems
  Got a problem? Who doesn’t? It might help to know there are five ways, ...
• How to Put Parenting First and Tame the To-Do List
  The mom I was talking with the other ...
• Community, Libraries and Mental Health
  Unlike his colleague Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler -- another early 20th century psychologist -- wasn’t interested in analyzing ...
• When Crisis Becomes Chronic: What to do When Friendships Fade
  It’s a common experience. Something goes wrong in ...
• Parents Gone Wild at Easter Egg Hunt
  The headline on our local paper reads, “A few rotten eggs spoil Easter Hunt.” Parents, who were supposed to ...
• The One You Feed: Helping Your Children Find Their Way
  This story was recently passed on to me. An old Cherokee told his grandson: “My son, ...
• Teens, Texting and Driving: Disaster in the Making
  Having been rear-ended not once but twice in the same month by teens who were texting and driving, ...
• Valentine’s Day & Parental LOVE
  Did you know that about 40 percent of the 180 million Valentine's cards purchased this year will be bought by parents? ...
• 3 Steps to a Closer, Stronger Family
  “I wish my kids and I were closer.” One of the letters I received recently on Psych Central's Ask ...
• It’s January: Have You Started Your Christmas Shopping?
  Believe it or not, I’ve already started Christmas shopping for next year. With a big family and ...
• 5 Reasons Not To Marry the One You Love
  For many young girls, being a bride is the closest thing possible to living out childhood fantasies ...
• ‘Tis the Season to Regress
  What is it that makes perfectly reasonable adults start to act like teenagers as soon as they hit their parents’ front door? ...