Family Articles

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• Modeling Healthy Behavior for Your Children
  It is important to recognize that parents can do everything possible and still have a child fall into unhealthy behaviors. But ...
• The Long Goodbye: A Memoir
  The Long Goodbye by poet and literary critic Meghan O’Rourke is a beautifully written and poignant memoir about grappling with a mother’s death. In the first of three sections, O’Rourke recounts her mother's colon cancer ...
• Helping or Enabling? A Fine Line When Dealing with OCD
  Parenting for me has often involved following my instincts and using good common sense. Whether it ...
• The Available Parent: Radical Optimism for Raising Teens and Tweens
  As the parent of a teen, you might feel exactly like this mother: “My daughter went to high school her first day as a freshman and never returned. I lost my baby!” But you might ...
• Tiger Mother: Son of a Bitch
  It is hard to summarize and review Tiger Mother: Son of a Bitch without an undercurrent of disgust, even when trying to temper it with pity.  Derrick Lin’s self-published work, written in “a matter of ...
• Five Ways To Create a Secure Attachment with Your Baby, Without Sharing Your Bed
  After giving birth the first time, I stayed home for three months, ...
• Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
  In her memoir Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading, author Nina Sankovitch recounts the year she spent reading a book a day in hopes of soothing her grief. Sankovitch’s oldest sister, ...
• I Love My Mother, But… Practical Help to Get the Most Out of Your Relationship
  In her book, I Love My Mother, But... Practical Help to Get the Most Out of Your Relationship, Linda Mintle, Ph.D, a licensed marriage and family therapist, features hands-on advice and excerpts from the Bible ...
• The Way of the Comedian
  This article has been excerpted from Humor’s Hidden Power: Weapon, Shield and Psychological Salve by Nichole Force, M.A. According to a tale in the ...
• Resetting Roles: A Challenge for Everyone
  A new study by Forbes Woman and the pregnancy website TheBump.com found that 92 percent of working moms and 89 ...
• Reconnect with Your Family: Have a Hotdog
  You may have seen the commercial on TV. A dad comes home, weary after a hard day of work. ...
• Daddies Do Make A Difference
  “Congratulations on your wife’s pregnancy,” I said to an acquaintance I ran into in the parking lot at the grocery store. ...
• Constancy, Care and Courage: The 3 Cs of Successful Fathering
  Fathers Day is coming around again. On the third Sunday of June in the U.S., ...
• How Experts Achieve a Work-Life Balance and How You Can Too
  Trying to find that elusive work-life balance? You’re not the only one! Many people feel ...
• Madness Made Plain: Henry’s Demons
  Henry’s Demons is what madness is all about. Patrick Cockburn, war correspondent for The Independent in London, writes this book about another war -- the war against schizophrenia within his own son, Henry. Moreover, Henry ...
• 9 Common Questions About Dreams Answered
  Ever wonder why you keep having the same dream over and over again, what your nightmares actually mean and ...
• Teens with Intellectual Disability Have it Harder
  Trudy is 16 and attends the local high school. Her mother tells me she’s always been an affectionate, optimistic ...
• The Advantages of Being Bilingual
  I'm trying to be patient, but J'en ai marre!! -- I'm fed up!! At least at times, that's how ...
• Hints To Help Kids Get Enough Sleep
  Setting healthy sleep habits when your child is young is key for their wellbeing. Here, Stephanie Silberman, Ph.D, clinical ...
• 15 Insights on Improving Mother-Daughter Relationships
  Mother-daughter relationships are complex and diverse. Some mothers and daughters are best friends. Others talk once a week. Some see ...
• 7 Ways Parents Can Help Their Teens Get Enough Sleep
  You might be surprised to learn that teens actually need more sleep than adults. Unfortunately, they tend to be ...
• 10 Way to Build and Preserve Better Boundaries
  Boundaries are essential to healthy relationships and, really, a healthy life. Setting and sustaining boundaries is a skill. ...
• Parenting Teens and Tweens: Being an Available Parent
  In addition to the inherent challenges of raising kids during the adolescent years, “Parenting teens and tweens today is a brave new world indeed,” according ...
• Mother’s Day is About More Than Cards
  My 90+ year old friend is incensed about Mother’s Day.  “It’s just a day made up to sell cards,” ...
• Keeping Your Child Free from Addiction
  The single most pressing concern for the parents I see in my psychotherapy practice, whether their child is 4 ...