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When Everyone Else Is Married with Children

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

It started in my mid-twenties. At first it was a slow trickle, then the downpour exploded. Almost all of my friends started getting married. I was a bridesmaid so many times that ...

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How To Talk to Your Kids About ADHD

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Your child is in school and either you are frustrated, your child’s teacher is frustrated, or both. You have most likely seen behavioral problems and your child’s teacher has called to tell you that ...

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Setting Up a Behavior Management Plan for an ADHD Child

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Children who have been diagnosed with ADHD are at a much higher risk of developing noncompliant or negative behaviors than a child who does not have ADHD. The very nature of ADHD implies that the ...

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Meta-communication: What I Said Isn’t What I Meant

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

"We're not communicating." The woman on the phone thinks she has told me why she and her husband of only a year want to come in for therapy. "Does your husband agree?" I ask. "He thinks ...

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10 Reasons You Don’t Listen

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

We're all guilty of not listening at one point or another in our lives. We tune others out while we're watching the TV, or trying to concentrate on something we're reading. Nowadays, we try hard ...

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7 Myths of Perfect Parenting

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

"I'm so afraid I'm going to blow it." The niece of a friend of mine, 24 and pregnant, confided to me while we were out walking last weekend. "I mean. I'm just figuring out ...

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Why Parents Should Resign as Boredom Busters

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

My best friend and I joke that when we were kids we never knew what our homes looked like in daylight. As soon as we got home from school; as soon as we changed our ...

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Q & A with Eating Disorder Specialist Sari Fine Shepphird: Part 1

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Sari Fine Shepphird, Ph.D, a Los Angeles clinical psychologist and eating disorder specialist, is the author of 100 Questions & Answers about Anorexia Nervosa. Psych Central contributor Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., spoke with her about ...

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Mother’s Day Thoughts by a Mommy of Angels

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

I have been thinking. I have 6 Angels waiting for me in Heaven. I have miscarriages. The couple weeks surrounding Mother's Day contain several significant dates for me anyway. May 8th was the 7th anniversary ...

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Moving In To Move On

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Emma is 25, has a masters degree in social work from a prestigious college, and $40,000 in school loans. Her entry-level job pays only $24,000 and she lives in a town where even sharing an ...

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Teens Who Self-Harm

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Sandy's mother, Lily, is beside herself. "I didn't notice anything was wrong all winter," she said. "Oh, she was quieter than usual and her grades weren't the best. But we moved last fall and I ...

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Teaching Kids To Tell the Truth

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

"Please tell my husband he's over-reacting." The woman across from me is quietly concerned. I can't tell yet if she is worried about her son or if she's worried how her husband will react to ...

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Why Can’t You Just Cooperate?

Monday, April 6th, 2009

"Why can't you just cooperate?" The dad at the other end of the playground is raising his voice at what I'm guessing is a three- or four-year-old boy. It's the first nice Saturday of spring ...

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Adolescence: The Ping-Pong Stage of Life

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

"But everyone else is doing it." I do remember saying it often when I was a teen, although I can’t for the life of me remember about what. More vivid is my mother’s refrain: “If ...

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ADHD Behavioral Interventions for the Home

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

Parents often hear the words "parental training" and think, "Oh great, like you could teach me something that'll control my out-of-control attention deficit disorder child!" And yet research has shown that children with attention deficit ...

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