keeping kids out of trouble
Sometimes Kids Just Need To Hear No
Nobody likes to disappoint their children. It’s hard to turn them down, crush their hopes, or deny them. And it’s particularly hard to deal with their unpleasant reactions [...]
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Happiness At Home: Parenting Your Teen With Less Stress
How to Maintain Communication Even though teens need to separate from their parents during adolescence, they also need to know that the safety net of home and family is always [...]
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A New Year’s Challenge
What is one thing you could do this month to improve your relationship with your children? We all know that we’re not perfect and that we have room to improve. So [...]
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5 Things You Can Do Today To Improve Your Family Life
Sometimes in the hustle and bustle of our lives today, we can find ourselves pretty removed from the family that is so important to us. Here are 5 things you can do – today! – [...]
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Do We Need Intuition In Parenting?
Who do you trust for information about raising your children? Your doctor, your mom, your girlfriends, the internet? Who do you receive information and advice from (whether [...]
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Express Yourself
I spend a lot of time with my psychotherapy clients focusing on communication. I’m not sure that I’ve ever had a couple come for couples therapy that has NOT brought up “poor [...]
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Kids and Stress
What are the symptoms of stress? You can probably name a few that you recognize in yourself – irritability, emotionality, trouble sleeping, inability to concentrate – but what [...]
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Positive Parenting Works!
Researchers from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted a meta-analysis of the current research literature on parent training programs, in order to [...]
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Talking to Our Daughters About Sex
You may or may not have already had “the talk” with your kids, your daughters in particular. You may be avoiding it like the plague, you may feel that [...]
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Teens Need Their Parents
As a culture, we assume that the teen years are going to be tough on parents. Somewhere between grade seven or eight and the end of high school, we expect problems. We don’t [...]
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