The Importance of Being Bored
If you are knee deep in camp brochures, trying to figure out whether to send your kids to basketball camp, archery practice, or a ballet troupe, stop what you are …
Positive Parenting: Why Spanking Is Never The Solution
Being a parent is hard. There are days when you want to lock yourself in your room and forget about all of your responsibilities for awhile. Yet, for most of …
Monsters In the Attic: How To Help Your Anxious Child
Anxiety disorders are the most commonly experienced mental health issues in the United States, affecting at least 40 million adults age 18 or older, or 18.1% of the population. According …
Love, Sex, and Teens: How to Have “The Talk”
There are few things that parents of teens dread more than “The Talk.” Flashes of awkward silences, and even more awkward conversations, tend to come to mind when adults contemplate …
Education for Everyone: How College Is A Viable Option for Students With Disabilities
As the summer draws to a close, millions of eager students are preparing for their Freshman year of college. For some, it will be a year of many firsts; the …
Little Kids, Big Emotions: Teaching Kids How To Handle Feelings
We all experience events through our own personal lenses, and children are no exception. Being little in a big world can feel outrageously overwhelming at times. Whether it’s adjusting to …
Creative Ways To Keep Your Children Learning This Summer
It’s hard to believe the school year is almost over and summer is approaching so quickly! If you are a parent, and your children attend schools on the traditional schedule, …
Teaching Emotional Agility to Teens
For some people, the term “agility,” brings up images of border collies jumping through hoops, but for psychologists, the word conjures up a host of skills and abilities that can …
Happiness Is Contagious: The Importance of Parental Modeling
Have you ever looked at your child as she was slamming her bedroom door, and felt a tinge of familiarity? Not familiarity in the sense that you are family, but …
Reducing Freshman Fears: How To Emotionally Prepare Your Teen For College
According to the Holmes-Rahe Stress Inventory, a rating scale that assigns a numerical category to different life events, change, of any kind, can be extremely stressful. Even if the change …