Category Archives: Parenting

The Teenage Years: 4 Questions That May Predict Thriving

One factor may matter more than you might expect for kids in their teenage years. A recent study from Brazil and Romania has important implications for American teenagers.

Teen Suicide Prevention: How To Innoculate Your Kids

Teenage depression can lead to suicide. How can a parent be proactive?

The 4 Best Gifts You Can Give to Your Teen

Teens nowadays like to have fashionable clothes, high tech electronics, and sports equipment. But here are the gifts they value more and truly need.

Should Kids Have a Voice in Post-Divorce Planning?

Do father and mother know best? Will kids feel caught in the middle? Or are kids the experts in what will be best for them?

Raising Well-Behaved Kids: Mistaken vs. Smart Discipline

Want to raise good kids? Avoid two harmful discipline techniques, and use instead four far more positive options.

Parental Alienation: What Can an Alienated Parent Do?

One challenge with parental alienation is finding professionals informed enough to provide effective help, especially with regard to dealing with the legal system.

Prepping Kids So They’re Ready To Thrive as Adults

What do students need from their parents? Freud had a surprisingly solid definition many years ago. With tough economic times likely to lie ahead, it's worth paying attention to what Freud said.

Overcoming BPD: 3 Vital Ways Parents of Teenagers Can Help

What can you do if one or more of your children, young or grown, shows the emotional hyper-reactivity and excessive anger that characterize borderline personality disorder?

Mom Humiliates Daughter via Facebook: Discipline or Abuse?

Have you ever seen what emotional abuse looks like? Here's a live example from a story that broke just this past week. What would you do if you saw someone doing this to a teenager?

Mother’s Day Dread

I dread Mothers Day because I deeply miss my Mom. That's her with me in this picture. If your mom has a borderline personality disorder, however, there's other reasons why Mothers' Day may be no fun.