YouTube for Children: How to Make It Safe
To ensure a safe online experience, it’s important to actively monitor YouTube for children. “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…
Read MoreFrom Mom’s to Dad’s: How to Cope with Transition Issues After Divorce
Cope with Transition Issues After Divorce How to cope with transition issues after divorce? 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…
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
How to recognize parental alienation. After getting into trouble at school, a child casually reveals signs of Parental Alienation. they have no contact with one parent, hold a very negative view of them, and express relief at the separation. An adult enters psychotherapy for anxiety, depression, or relationships issues, unclear about why they have all…
Read MoreTeaching Mindfulness: 5 Ways to Reduce Childhood Anxiety
5 Ways to Reduce Childhood Anxiety Mindfulness is often seen as something spiritual or mystical, but when used to address Childhood Anxiety, it becomes a practical tool for helping kids manage stress and emotions. But mindfulness is none of that. Simply put, mindfulness is being fully conscious and aware of the present moment. That awareness…
Read More10 Ways to Help Your Teen Get Over a Breakup
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…
Read MoreParents: What You Need To Know About Teen Eating Disorders
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.…
Read More5 Essential Keys on How to Avoid Parental Alienation
5 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…
Read MoreIs Your Teen Questioning Their Sexuality? – Learn How You Can Support Them
Is your teen questioning their sexuality? 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…
Read MoreHow Parents Can Be Supportive When Children Grieve a Loss
Children Grieve a Loss How 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…
Read MoreParents: How to Get Your Kids to Cooperate Without Child Shaming
If you make a child feel loved, you’ll foster cooperation and reduce the negative effects often associated with child shaming 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?…
Read MoreHas Your Teen Learned Helplessness? – 5 Ways to Reverse the Problem
Has Your Teen Learned Helplessness? Your teenage son once again left his dirty clothes strewn all over the house. Yet, instead of nagging him about picking them up for the umpteenth time, you simply do it yourself. You teenage daughter constantly forgets her homework, lunch money, and sports gear. Rather than let her be without,…
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