Parenting Articles
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- 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 ...
- Better By Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong
Intellectually we know that making a mistake gives us the opportunity to learn and grow. Still, that usually does little to assuage our shame, embarrassment and guilt when making an error. Of course, it depends ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Tips for Keeping a Parent Emotionally Connected while Geographically Apart
The 2006 Census reported that 3.6 million married Americans were not living with their spouses. ...
- Beyond the Blues: Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression
Beyond the Blues: Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression & Anxiety by Shoshana Bennett, Ph.D. And Pec Indman, Ed.D., MFT is a very good read for such a serious subject that not only teaches ...
- Crisis of Confidence in a Teen: It’s a Family Matter
The characters in the following vignette are fictitious. They were derived from a composite of people ...
- 15 Ways To Support a Loved One with Serious Mental Illness
Supporting a loved one with mental illness presents many challenges. But one of them ...
- Book Review: Mortal Bonds
Losing one parent is devastating. But losing both parents within 13 days of each other? In his eBook memoir, Mortal Bonds, John Tsilimparis recounts his parents’ difficult deaths, his father from various health conditions and ...
- Parenting As a Team When You’re Living Apart
Perhaps your wife or husband is deployed. Or maybe one of you had to take a job in ...
- Understanding and Managing Your Controlling Mother
You are 35 years old and your mom is still trying to run your life. She doesn’t approve of your boyfriend. She thinks your best ...
- Parents Important in the Prevention, Awareness of Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are now epidemic in the United States. Approximately 11 million women and girls struggle ...
- 9 Psychologist-Approved Must-Reads on Mental Health
Psychologists are a discerning bunch when it comes to books. Because of their insider’s view of mental ...
- Help Your Intellectually Disabled Child Handle Bullying
“Sticks and stones will break my bones
But words will never hurt me.”
~Children’s chant
The chant is a lie! It may ...
- 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 ...
