The 4 Best Gifts You Can Give to Your Teen
What do teenagers want? You may be surprised by the answer. Read More:
“What can we give him that we can afford, that he’ll love, and that will make a real difference in his life?”
When Is the Best Time to Have Children?
When is an ideal time to have children? And what are the consequences for your future life of that decision? Read More
Grandparents and Grandkids: The Perils of Long Distance Love
Grandchildren are the privilege and delight of increasingly fewer seniors. Those who do have grandkids too often live at too far a distance to reach out and hug them. Read More
Between Parent and Child: An All-Time Parenting Best-Seller
Haim Ginott’s parenting book revolutionized our ideas of how to talk with children. Read More
Discipline with Babies and Toddlers
Even the most endearing of babies manage from time to time to do things that are provocative. It’s best though to eliminate punishing them or even getting mad. There’s less stressful, less hurtful, and far more effective ways to take charge. Read More
You’re Here to Fulfill My Dreams
When he had been young, Paul easily rose to the top of the world of junior tennis by winning many junior tennis tournaments. Throughout his high school years he ranked at the top not only in his city but in the state, the region and the country. What was the price? Read More
When Your Mother Has a Borderline Personality
Adult children of moms with borderline personality disorders report the lifelong devastating impact of their mothers’ intense narcissism and unpredictable raging. What could help kids who have these kinds of moms? Read More
Help For Little Girls Who Do Too Much Anger
When children learn that throwing angry fits gets them what they want, why should they change? Likewise for lovers and spouses who find that anger works to control their mate. Read More
Kids Making Too Much Noise?
Try reading this story to your children if they sometimes make too much noise. Your discussion afterwards should be interesting. The story was written by a five-year-old boy who was trying to learn to tame his volume. Read More
More Info for Adult Children of Borderline Mothers
These comments from readers of my earlier postings on borderline personality disorder have useful suggestions for understanding and coping with family members who rage. Read More
Lessons from Thumbsucking, the Earliest Addiction
What helps kids to cease sucking their fingers or thumbs? These same principles can prove useful for grownups who want to overcome mistaken-things-we-put-in-our-mouths like excessive food, alcohol and drugs, or cigarettes. Read More
Three Ways to Use Play to Get Kids to Behave
Parenting, someone once said, is the art of getting kids to do what you want them to do, and getting them to stop doing things you don’t want them to do. These three ways of playing can fill your basket of parenting tricks with potent fun strategies. Read More
