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“Spirit Week” Isn’t Fun For Kids In Dysfunctional Families
In my secret Facebook group*, someone brought up the topic of how much parent involvement is expected by schools nowadays. They were mentioning how stressful it is as a parent to engage in constant...
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Are Your Early Life Experiences Stopping You From Teaching Your Child...
Many parents that I see in my practice struggle with kids who won’t listen and/or kids who “can’t” do developmentally appropriate life activities. This ranges from kids who refuse to brush their teeth...
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Stop Overapologizing To Your Kids!
Frequent readers of this blog know that I advise you to stop letting your kids treat you like garbage, stop feeding your kids fake praise, and stop overvalidating them. This all falls under the larger...
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Having A Healthy Sex Life With Your Spouse Is Good For Your Kids, Here’s Why
Many couples that I see in counseling are very child-centered, and place their kids far above themselves and their partners. I see many clients who prioritize their child’s every desire over their own...
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How To Deal When Your Kids Prefer Your Co-Parent
As much as all (or at least most) divorced parents want their child to enjoy their time with both parents, it can be hurtful to observe that your kids seem to prefer your co-parent to you. (And...
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Divorced Parents With Split Custody: Give Kids Weekend Down Time
Shared custody is more and more common after divorce nowadays, with the most common being that each parent has the kids every other weekend. This is great in many ways, because kids get to have time...
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How To Talk To Your Kids About Your Difficult Childhood
Reader Difficult Upbringing Problems writes, I had a question on your “parents with sad stories” post but I don’t want to out myself to Facebook. I am constantly torn between being honest when my kids...
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Do You Minimize Your Own Stressful Upbringing While Trying To Protect Your...
I have many clients who are very smart and successful, but are plagued with issues like marital conflict, low self-esteem, parenting issues, trust issues, and a host of psychological (and often...
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Being Made To Constantly Listen To Your Parents’ Sad Stories Is Emotional Abuse
Many of the clients I work with are people-pleasers, nearly phobic about upsetting other people, especially within intimate relationships. Often, these people experienced childhoods in which one or...
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Guess What Happens If You Let Your Kids Treat You Like Garbage?
In today’s child-centered parenting approach, parents seem to confuse “being kind and validating to your child” with “letting your child treat you like garbage.” Even if you yourself are a masochistic...
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Kids Lie And Pretending They Don’t Can Mess Them Up
So many parents in today’s child-centered culture refuse to entertain the notion that their children are capable of dishonesty. Yet, kids, like all humans, lie. They lie for many reasons, and this...
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8 Concrete, No BS Ways To Stop Overparenting Your Kids
So many parents are stressed, overwhelmed and guilty nowadays, which I attribute directly to our child-centered culture. Parents feel that they must enrich, validate, and engage with their kids...
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8 Issues That Impact Adults Who Used To Be Gifted Children
In my practice, I get a lot of highly verbal, high achieving and/or intellectual clients, which I can attribute to the fact that these are the people who tend to research their own issues at length and...
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Webinar on How To Parent Highly Sensitive Kids: Friday January 31 at 12pm EST!
I will be hosting a webinar for parents of Highly Sensitive Kids via Facebook Live on Friday January 31 at 12pm EST. Here’s the event link. As the mom of 2-3 Highly Sensitive children (all different...
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5 Things You Actually Should Discuss With Your Elementary Schooler, Even If...
Many parents try to protect their children from hearing about topics that they consider developmentally too mature. This is well intentioned, but parents who censor discussions too much can miss out...
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It Breaks My Heart When Other Kids Are Mean To My Three Year Old
Reader Guilty Mommy writes, Hello, I found an only child post on your site and really enjoyed it.. Can I ask for a bit of advice along the same lines? I’m an older mom (42) with a three year old and...
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How Do I Deal With Gifted Autism Spectrum Kids Without Going Insane?
Reader Burnt Out Mom writes, I love your advice and have learned many good parenting tricks from you! Any ideas to deal with genius autistic spectrum kids without going deaf and/or insane? My 2 1/2...
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5 Ways That “Natural Consequences” Can Make Parenting Easier
When kids misbehave (read: do stuff you don’t want them to do), many parents say, “Well, they’ll learn through natural consequences.” This means consequences that a parent doesn’t create (e.g., a...
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How Would My 5 Year Old Deal With A Foster Sibling?
Reader Prospective Foster Mom writes, Let me start by saying that we have a healthy, happy family that I wouldn’t sacrifice for anything. With that being said, we (should be read as I) are considering...
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Should I Focus On Raising Emotionally Happy Kids Or Kids With Grit?
Reader Philosophical Question writes, You write here that you can’t have your cake and eat it too, that you can’t both create kids with grit and kids who are very emotionally secure. But here, you...
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