Articles on Parenting
Understanding the Connection Between Going Back to School and Adolescent Anxiety
As summer winds down and returning to school becomes an unavoidable reality, many teenagers are experiencing a rush of varied emotions. Some teens enjoy school and are eager to...
Second Thoughts about Going to College
It’s mid-August and your teen announces having second thoughts about going to college. Maybe college isn’t such a good idea. Maybe it isn’t a good idea this year. Are those...
Self-Development: From Bondage to Freedom
Freedom is necessary for self-development. Without it, the child would be unable to experiment with different selves, which would stunt their development and growth. There are a number of...
Healing through the Lens: Using Photography to Shift Perspective and Increase Self Awareness
It is nearly a decade ago that I first picked up a camera, that I saw for the first time my world view through a fresh perspective. I noticed...
What Mothering Has Taught Me: Women Share More Life-Changing Lessons
Motherhood shifts your entire life — often your entire being. Now your days are different. Now your hours are no longer your own. Now you share your life with...
What Mothering Has Taught Me: Women Share Life-Changing Lessons
Motherhood is many emotions and adventures. It is laughter and tears—sometimes simultaneously. It is watching with wonder as your child goes from holding their head up for several seconds...
The Trauma of Children of Addicts and Alcoholics
Living with an addict (including alcoholics1) can feel like life in a war zone. The addict’s personality changes caused by addiction create chaos. The family dynamics are organized around...
Book Review: The Attachment Bond
Attachment is often described as a process that acts like a blueprint for our relationships. What we learn in our first – and most formative – relationship becomes the...
Book Review: Transforming Stress for Teens
The teenage years are littered with physical, educational, emotional and hormonal changes. These changes come with their own levels of stress and do not necessarily include the stress and chaos that...
Being a Parent and Not ‘Parenting’
I have a love affair with words, and when society transforms a noun into a verb (verbing), I take note. Examples of this: “xeroxing,” “blogging,” “plating,” “googling” … all convert...
Book Review: Engaging Adolescents
Adolescence is a time when kids individuate from their parents in confusing, and often troubling, ways. For many parents the question becomes not just how to keep them out...
A Step Forward in Our Understanding of C-PTSD
The concept of Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, known as C-PTSD for short, was first developed in the early 1990s. As with all scientific advances, not everyone realized its...
Women Reveal the Biggest Lessons Mothering Has Taught Them
Every transition, every change, in our lives teaches us something—if we listen. We learn something about ourselves, about how we want to live, about what matters—and what doesn’t. Motherhood...
Worried about Your Kid Watching “13 Reasons Why”? Here Are 6 Tips
If you are worried about your kid watching the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, you’re right to be. There are disturbingly graphic depictions of violence, rape and suicide. At the...
Using Family Therapy to Treat Teen Substance Abuse
Teens have their own set of circumstances and stressors that can impact their substance abuse behaviors, thus making the need for treatment designed specifically for adolescents extremely important. Teen...
