Family Articles
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- Moving and Young Children
Moving day. Such excitement! Such distress! An event nearly every family experiences a few times, if not more. The impact on ...
- Q&A: Disciplining a Challenging Preschool Child
Q: My son is four years old and he rules the house. His first response to ...
- White Elephants
As I cried, I wanted to believe it was the alcohol that induced Mom’s words. I had to believe it was the alcohol. I don’t want them. The words rang in my ears. That’s the ...
- Easy Steps to Reconnect: A Guide for Emotionally Avoidant Dads
It was torture for Jason when his 13-year-old ...
- Money and Your Children
From small allowances for young children to bank accounts and credit cards for college students, parents have many questions and ...
- Things to Consider When Choosing a Residential Treatment Program for OCD
I’ve written before about my son Dan’s stay at an intensive residential program for ...
- How to Put Parenting First and Tame the To-Do List
The mom I was talking with the other ...
- How to Overcome Obstacles to Positive Change
We all are faced at times with trying to persuade others to make behavioral changes, or needing to do so ...
- How Can I Improve Intimacy in My Marriage?
It has become too common a refrain: There isn't enough time. This is the excuse put forth ...
- Problems of Codependents
Everyone laughs when I tell them that I wrote Codependency for Dummies. But codependency is no laughing matter. It causes ...
- Where Have All the Bicycles Gone? Kids Today
Childhood has moved indoors.
What a shame.
Children are meant to be running free in open spaces, ...
- Q&A: Coping with a Difficult Temperament
Q. Our seven-year-old son is very sensitive and throws many tantrums. He usually starts his day in a ...
- More on Disciplining a Challenging Preschooler
In a prior column I wrote about how to teach self-control to a 4-year-old boy who constantly challenged ...
- 5 Relationship Myths
Many of us have read the fairy tales and seen the movies. There’s the handsome prince who comes to save the day ...
- Personifying OCD: An Effective Recovery Tool
My son Dan’s obsessive-compulsive disorder became so severe during the end of his freshman year of college that he could ...
- How’s Your Family Really Doing? 10 Keys to a Happy Loving Family
When you think about it, who better to write a book about the wellness of a family than a husband and wife team who are mental health professionals and parents of two children?
Don MacMannis, ...
- Disciplining Older Teenagers
Beer cans in a closet, pot in a glove compartment, groundings or curfews ignored, abusive language... not necessarily ...
- Being a Grownup When Your Kid Hates You
This column tells a story based on a composite of real-life situations in therapy to represent both teen and ...
- How Family and Friends Can Aid Mental Health Recovery
Recovering from mental illness is terrifying and exhausting, both for the person diagnosed and those who ...
- 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 Escape of Sigmund Freud
Eighty years old, sick with cancer, and reeling from the Nazis' takeover of his beloved Vienna, Sigmund Freud, in 1936, faced a harsh reality: he had to leave. But where would he go, and how ...
- Improving the Odds for Successful Second Marriages
Divorce rates have long been overstated, and that for more educated couples who are over 25 when they marry, ...
- Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope
Ben Behind His Voices is an inspirational story about a family’s experience with schizophrenia. The focus of Randye Kaye’s book is on her son Ben, who struggled for many years with mental health and substance ...
- Parenting Strategies with Toddlers
A number of recent workshops with parents of toddlers produced the following list ...
