Parenting
How 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 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 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 MorePositive Parenting: 7 Tips to Creating a Harmonious Parent-Child Connection
Positive Parenting: 7 Tips to Creating a Harmonious Parent-Child Connection Harmony. If you’ve ever listened to an acapella quartet or a beautifully orchestrated symphony, you understand harmony. The harmonious interaction of voices and/or instruments leaves you uplifted, enchanted, and peaceful. There are no harsh sounds that prick your nerves and make you cringe… at least,…
Read MoreIt’s Normal to Make Mistakes! – 4 Tips to Help Your Perfectionistic Child
4 Tips to Help Your Perfectionistic Child Does your child… …expect nothing less than an A in all their classes? …view criticism as a personal attack? …avoid new projects because they’re worried they’ll fail? Of course, there’s nothing wrong if your child wants to do their very best. But it’s self-defeating when they strive after…
Read More10 Simple and Effective Ways to Motivate the Unmotivated
Effective Ways to Motivate the Unmotivated It’s staring at you. Looming over you like Mount Everest. That monumental task you know needs to get done, but that you’re completely unmotivated to tackle. You skirt around it. You try to ignore it. But it’s still there. Steadily bearing down on you, mocking you. You know the…
Read MoreParenting Challenges – 8 Tips to Avoid Spoiling Your Child
8 Tips to Avoid Spoiling Your Child Imagine the scene: A splendid throne atop an elevated platform. Two servants rushing back and forth, catering to the every wish of the crowned head seated upon the lofty chair. Exhausted from a day’s worth of conforming to the demands of the ruler, they finally bow with heads…
Read MoreHomework Procrastination? 7 Out of the Box Solutions for Getting It Done!
Homework Procrastination “Time to start homework.” “Ugh,” he huffs. “Do I have to?” “Come on. Stop procrastinating.” You give him a stern look, hoping a little parental intimidation will get the point across. “It won’t do itself.” He rolls his eyes. You point to the table. “Now.” “Just ten more…
Read MoreKeep Yourself Sane – Use a Healthy Summer Sleep Schedule for Your Children
Healthy Summer Sleep Schedule for Your Children “Just 10 minutes more? Pleeeease!” “But I don’t have to get up early tomorrow…” “Can I just finish watching this ONE show?” Those may be some of the pleas and rationalizations you’ll hear from your children this summer. Once school is done and they’re on break, it seems…
Read MoreGrounding Exercises: 5 Steps to Cope with Overwhelming Anxiety
There it is again. That familiar feeling of anxiety welling up in you. Tension creeping up into your neck, your heart pounding, your breath becoming rapid and shallow. Your hands feel clammy and your head feels like it’s slowly being squeezed in a vise. Dizziness begins to set in. By then, you notice your attention…
Read MoreHow to Recognize Your Role in Spoiled-Child Syndrome and How to Reverse It
A 4-year-old boy scolding his mother sharply for not getting him the food he wanted. A 7-year-old girl loudly interrupting her father’s conversation with another man, demanding to leave. An 8-year-old girl throwing a tantrum because her parents went to the movies without her. A 12-year-old boy shouting at his teacher for removing his cell…
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