Parenting Library

• Tips for Successful Toilet Training
  Few issues in child-rearing create as much anxiety for mothers and fathers as toilet training. And few issues generate as much ...
• 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 ...
• The Myth of the High Rate of Divorce
  A few years ago, my wife and I celebrated our 25th anniversary. It is the second ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Infant Feeding Methods and Maternal Sleep and Sleepiness
  The choice to breastfeed an infant is intensely personal. Yet because of the well established health and psychological benefits of breastfeeding for both the mother and ...
• Young Families Face New Problems
  Ed and Carol were seeking help for a number of common complaints: poor communication, ...
• 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, ...
• The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness
  I've borrowed the title of Dr. Ned Hallowell's book (2002, Ballentine Books) as the title of this ...
• 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, ...
• When Your Young Adult Son Wants to Sleep with His Girlfriend in Your House
  My wife and I talk to our son Scott about every ...
• What You Need to Consider Before Having Kids
  Having a baby is a big decision that requires couples to do some serious self-reflecting ...
• Depression in Teens and Children
  Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health disorders in the country and it is on the rise as one ...
• Bright Not Broken: Gifted Kids, ADHD, and Autism
  Diane M. Kennedy and Rebecca S. Banks, the authors of Bright Not Broken, and the contributor, Temple Grandin, all have a combination of personal and professional experience with learning and developmental disabilities. Kennedy and Banks are ...
• When My Mommy Cries
  Crystal Godfrey LaPoint’s tender story in When My Mommy Cries is one that has needed to be told for some time now. Like any good children’s author, LaPoint is able to succinctly express her theme, ...
• What Helps Children To Be Successful Adults?
  Last month, an article in the Boston Globe reported on the resiliency of adults. Primarily based on the longitudinal studies by George Vallient from Harvard, ...
• My 3-Year-Old Son Wants To Be Cinderella!
  Our playgroup of preschoolers recently attended a production of “Cinderella.” All the children were enamored with the costumes, music and beauty of ...
• Raising Assertive Kids
  Assertiveness isn’t necessarily innate. While it might come naturally to some people, it’s largely a skill -- and an important one at ...
• Resolving Infant Sleep Disturbance
  Q: Our 14-month-old son constantly awakens during the night and won't stop crying unless we hold him for long periods ...
• How To Raise a Child of Character
  How many of you think there are many children that struggle with communicating their needs, thoughts and feelings with ...
• Teens and Porn
  One of the mistakes parents make when they learn their teenage son has been viewing pornography sites on his computer is to ...
• 5 Tips to Increase Your Assertiveness
  “Assertiveness is all about being present in a relationship,” according to Randy Paterson, Ph.D, a clinical psychologist and author ...