Parenting Articles

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• Parenting Kids with ADHD: 16 Tips to Tackle Common Challenges
  The symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can present parents with ...
• Understanding and Managing Your Controlling Mother
  You are 35 years old and your mom is still trying to run your life. She ...
• Pregnancy Diary: Anxiety in Pregnancy
  I've been feeling strangely calm during this pregnancy, not too worried about things going wrong or having a difficult labor. There are ...
• Pregnancy Diary: Starting To Believe It’s Real
  So I've now been to the hospital to have my 20 week "anomaly" scan, where they ...
• Celebrate Your Family’s Heart this Valentine’s Day
  The New Year’s Day noise makers and confetti have barely come off the store ...
• On Grief, Loss and Coping
  When I was driving my mom and I to the hospital, I knew that my father, who had ...
• Surviving and Thriving As a Stepfamily
  All families face challenges. But stepfamilies encounter unique obstacles that can make or break their family. These unique challenges are ...
• 8 Myths of Fostering A Healthy Stepfamily
  Before becoming a stepfamily, many people have misconceptions about how life will be, how everyone will ...
• Tips for Parenting with a Mental Illness
  Parenting is a difficult job and a juggling act no matter what. It requires balancing your own needs with those of your ...
• My Adult Child Is in a Bad Relationship
  As you know, being a parent does not stop when your child leaves the nest. Whether your ...
• The Voice of an Eating Disorder
  Many people have a difficult time comprehending eating disorders and their true intensity and severity. Myths abound: Eating disorders are a choice. (They’re ...
• When Your Adult Child is in a Bad Relationship
  As you know, being a parent does not stop when your child leaves ...
• Stop Bribing and Start Teaching: One Family’s Story
  The father sitting across from me is genuinely bewildered. He doesn’t understand what his wife is talking about. The ...
• Pregnancy Does Not Diminish Brainpower
  Australian researchers have published evidence that so-called "baby brain" does not exist. Professor Helen Christensen and colleagues at the Australian National University examined the ...
• 8 Ways to Take the Joy Out of the Holidays
  In case you haven’t noticed, the winter holidays are here. They sweep over us like a tsunami of lights, ...
• When Your Child Asks, Is Santa Real?
  December rituals are similar in millions of households around the U.S. There’s a big buildup to Christmas with trips to visit ...
• What We Eat: Morality and the Dinner Table
  We humans enjoy dividing things into categories. Doing so helps us form cognitive shortcuts and organize large sets of information. ...
• The Link Between Vaccines and Autism: True or False?
  Does vaccination increase the likelihood of autism? One hypothesis is that vaccination in general, MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) virus live vaccine, and vaccines that contain mercury cause autism. Actress Jenny McCarthy is one of ...
• When Your Son Thinks He Is Gay
  Jean and Bill sought a psychological consult regarding their youngest son, Lucas, a senior in high school. Bill described a text message ...
• Tips for Getting Kids To Clean Their Rooms
  It's a battle that is waged in millions of households across America every Saturday morning. Mom or Dad or ...
• When a Child Lies
  Marion is upset. “My 10-year-old son is lying all the time. If I ask him if he’s done his homework, he says 'sure' even if I ...
• A Day at a Time: A Journal for Parents of Children with Autism
  Finally someone has stepped forward with a handy book that helps parents of children on the autistic spectrum organize their complex lives. Jen Merheb has created A Day at a Time: A Journal ...
• Overcoming ADHD: Helping Your Child Become Calm, Engaged and Focused Without a Pill
  Overcoming ADHD: Helping Your Child Become Calm, Engaged, And Focused – Without a Pill, was written by the late Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., noted psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, with Jacob Greenspan. Published in 2009, Overcoming ADHD ...
• Successful Parenting with ADHD
  Parenting is a stressful job on its own, but trying to raise a family while managing your own attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can be even ...
• Gentling: A Practical Guide to Treating PTSD in Abused Children
  William E. Krill, Jr.’s book Gentling: a Practical Guide to Treating PTSD in Abused Children is a must-read for anyone who works with children.  To say that it is a good idea to ...