With the recent kidnapping and molestation of an 8 year-old child, parents are once again encouraged to sit down with their kids and discuss “Stranger Danger” which typically leads to children being “afraid” of talking or interacting with “strangers”. Beware of strangers is something that is common for parents to teach their children and for […]
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A senseless bombing at the end of the infamous Boston Marathon has now forced parents to go to work securing their children that “everything is going to be okay”. After all, the role of a parent is to secure and protect their children. But, how from senseless Terrorist attacks? Whether it’s a terrorist act, an […]
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Did you know that your child has an 8 to 36% chance of using some sort of “Study Drug” these days once they get to high school? Yep, it’s now unfortunately safe to say that these stressful and changing times have officially trickled down to our children. Did you know that last year was the […]
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Every parent has the same experience – becoming bombarded with a plethora of questions from their children arising shortly after they learn to talk and increasing during the childhood years and then tapering down during adolescence. Within each of these interactions are also concerns about what is the “right” or “wrong” thing to say based […]
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The experience of self-doubt is perhaps one of the most compromising of all human emotions. Habitual doubt can lead to depression, anxiety, and even unhealthy relationships. In other words , the experience of doubt can easily make someone give up their most desired wishes leading to the experience of settling or relinquishing one’s dreams. So, […]
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It’s hard to imagine that when Saint Valentine performed illegal marriages for prisoners who were forbidden to marry that he would have thought that his acts would lead to a tradition of sending flowers, cards, and candy to loved ones. Well, this actually is not the case. In fact, the sending of such tokens of love is […]
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The idea that better gun control or increased school and Police interventions is the answer to stopping seriously disturbed people from committing serious crimes is perhaps the best example of a band-aid solution to a serious problem. We could compare this type of thinking to how we understand Terrorists. Once we find a way to […]
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Inattentive, oppositional, rude, too aggressive, anxious and disrespectful behaviors are all symptoms of a child or teen that may be over-stimulated by something in his or her environment. Such symptoms are often mistaken for some sort of psychological problem when the first thing that should be evaluated is whether or not a child is being exposed […]
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Not everyone is happy when the holiday season approaches especially if he or she has withstood some sort of crisis or loss over the past year. The loss of a loved one, a divorce, or significant changes in one’s health or occupational status can cause feelings of shock, despair, sadness, or even depression. For any […]
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Just exactly what is entitlement? Entitlement is when a child assumes that he or she is deserving of something that they have not earned. In other words, they assume they should receive something for the mere fact of being who they are. Within this paradigm, there is not a causal relationship between good effort and […]
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First come the “kid bumps” (those times when a child’s behavior triggers the parent to actually enforce change to avoid further setbacks in development), and then the dreaded “teen bumps” which is a whole different animal. This is because they aren’t those cute little kids anymore acting up. Instead, it’s some mutated organism stuck between childhood and […]
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If it weren’t for “Kid-Bumps”, we would all be in trouble, and perhaps parents, in general would not be needed. But we all know that leaving our kids alone for too long is likely going to lead to trouble and here is why. A “Kid–Bump” is when your child does something so outrageous that you […]
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