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Wracked with Guilt: What’s a Parent to do?
Have you ever found yourself feeling guilty about something you did or didn’t do for a child? If you’re a caring, responsible parent or teacher, likely you have. There are endless opportunities! We feel bad when we don’t measure up, when we can’t prevent something bad from happening to a child, or when we’ve done…
Navigating the Adolescent Years: Reclaiming our Youth
Many people shudder when thinking of parenting an adolescent. Indeed it can be a rite of passage for the adults responsible as well as for the teens involved. It is our job to help them cross the bridge from childhood to adulthood, and as with any transition, this can be a confusing, challenging and turbulent…
The Trouble With Time Outs
Many parents struggle with what to do when their children misbehave and often look to the well-known technique of time-outs. Although originally developed in the 1960s as a means to protect children from spanking, time-outs are used today as a panacea that is unwittingly creating other parenting problems. Although time-outs can buy temporary compliance with…
Can A Child Be Too Attached?
Dr. Neufeld recently completed a series of interviews with Kids in the House. I’m pleased to have permission to share these informative videos to bring you Dr. Neufeld’s attachment-based, developmentally friendly parenting advice — in three minutes or less! Can children be too attached to parents?| Find More Parenting Tips, Advice, and Videos at…
WHO’S IN CHARGE? Being in Right Relationship with our Children
A growing number of children and youth today are presenting as demanding, prescriptive, bossy and controlling. “You can’t tell me what to do!” “Not this way, that way!” “Give me that right now!” “You have to listen to me!” “Mom, you need to relax!” Every child talks like this from time to time, but some…
Parenting through September School Transitions
If your kids are cranky and uncooperative and you think your parenting is to blame, you may want to reconsider. Letting go of glorious summer to face school routines isn’t easy. Many kids have separation anxiety. Kids naturally have mixed emotions, which may spill out as tantrums, new monsters under the bed, refusals to do…
Building strong relationships with our children
Summer is here and, for many of us, that means so are our kids. Finally, the possibility of that elusive (and guilt-producing) ideal, “quality time,” has arrived. Shortly after the relief of not making school lunches, however, many of us will be yearning for September, when the kids go back to school. Being with our…
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