YouTube for Children: How to Make It Safe
“Isn’t that your daughter?” You stare at your friend’s text message with the accompanying YouTube link a little shellshocked. Wait… what? That uncomfortable feeling of impending dread is washing over you as you click on the link. You almost forget to breathe as the video starts playing and you see your 10-year old parading around…
Read MoreFrom Mom’s to Dad’s: How to Cope with Transition Issues After Divorce
Imagine you would be required to switch living arrangements every month or week, or perhaps even twice a week? At first, it may seem like an adventure, as if you were going on one sleepover after another. Eventually, though, you may become weary of it. What would it take for you to feel comfortable with…
Read MorePractical Ways to Support Your Child with Social Anxiety
At first, you may have thought your child was simply shy. With time, though, you began noticing certain warning signs that told a different story. You may have seen your child: Blush, be jittery, and seem nervous around other people, especially in group settings. Keep their head low and avoid eye contact or mumble and…
Read MoreHow to Know If You’re an Enmeshed Parent
What exactly is an enmeshed parent? There is a connection and, yet, a slight but decisive distinction between a helicopter parent, a narcissistic parent, and an enmeshed parent.A helicopter parent employs an excessively responsible parenting style that leads to overprotecting, overcontrolling, and over-perfecting their child. A narcissistic parent is so possessive that their child basically…
Read MoreHow to Recognize Parental Alienation – 8 Ways to Tell
After getting into trouble at school, a child casually reveals that they have no contact with one of their parents. In fact, they apparently have a very negative view of that parent and are glad to be rid of them. An adult enters psychotherapy for anxiety, depression, or relationships issues, unclear about why they have…
Read MoreTeaching Mindfulness: 5 Ways to Reduce Childhood Anxiety
Mindfulness is one of those trendy words that, in the minds of many, seems to be connected to something spiritual or mystical or detaching oneself from the world. But mindfulness is none of that. Simply put, mindfulness is being fully conscious and aware of the present moment. That awareness encompasses paying attention to your thoughts…
Read More10 Ways to Help Your Teen Get Over a Breakup
It may have been some time ago, but although you’re now a parent, you can probably still think back to your teenage years and remember your first breakup. How did it feel? One moment, you were on cloud nine. The next, you’ve crashed and shattered to pieces. The breakup may have caused you the most…
Read MoreParents: What You Need To Know About Teen Eating Disorders
Are you concerned about your teen developing an eating disorder? As a caring parent, the worry about your teen falling prey to societal ideas of body image that are less than healthy has probably crossed your mind a time or two—especially if you have a daughter. Why do teens succumb to the pressure? Some think,…
Read More5 Essential Keys on How to Avoid Parental Alienation
Most of us have probably heard horror stories of parental alienation. One parent deliberately targeting and sabotaging the other parent’s relationship with their child after a divorce. Either just to make themselves look good or exert some kind of control over their ex-spouse. The pain of such heinous actions can cut very deep. And the…
Read MoreIs Your Teen Questioning Their Sexuality? – Learn How You Can Support Them
For some teenagers, their sexual orientation is clear from the very start. For others, not so much. At one time or another during their adolescence, many teens find themselves in the process of figuring out where they are in connection with their sexuality. While that is a fairly common process, many parents are somewhat uncomfortable…
Read MoreHow Parents Can Be Supportive When Children Grieve a Loss
Children thrive in a loving family environment. How devastating it is for them when this secure atmosphere gets ripped apart by death. Of course, you’re probably struggling with your own emotions surrounding the loss—anguish, worry, anxiety, depression. But your children feel very much the same… and beyond. For many obvious reasons, losing a loved one…
Read MoreParents: How to Get Your Kids to Cooperate Without Child Shaming
If you make a child feel loved, you’ll foster cooperation. Sounds simple enough, right? But is it really that simple? Is just giving love enough? What happens when, despite you showering your child with love, they still don’t want to cooperate? Do you get annoyed? Exasperated? Angry? Do you perhaps end up falling back on…
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