By Paige Goldstein, LGSW You have asked your 10-year-old child repeatedly, “Pick up your shoes and move them to the closet, put your dirty clothes in the hamper, pick your toys up off the floor, clear your homework off the table…” Your child continues to play with a video game. You’ve reached the point of … More »
Blog Posts Tagged ‘child’
Enjoying Nature with Your Child
By Bracha Goetz, MA Question: How can I get my child interested in spending more time outdoors, enjoying nature? Answer: Joy is highly contagious. We don’t need to try all that hard to convince our children to appreciate what we appreciate. Our own joy speaks volumes. When we are able to focus on the … More »
When Your Child Is No Longer a Child
By Ruth Klein, Ph.D. The age of “emancipation.” So many of our children look forward to those “firsts”– the driver’s license, high school graduation, first apartment, first credit card — when they can be “liberated” from the burden of being under their parents’ rule and make decisions on their own. Yet somehow, in spite of … More »
Empower Your Child with a Personal Safety Check-up
By Bracha Goetz, MA One of our most important jobs as parents is caring for our children’s physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. The world today often doesn’t feel very safe. We walk a fine line between instilling excessive fear in our children and imparting a healthy sense of caution to them. What we want is … More »
Adoption: Is it right for me?
By Joseph Honsberger, LCSW-C I just recently came across another newspaper article about an adoption that went terribly wrong. These sensationalized stories about adoption gone awry occasionally occur, but there are many more examples of how adoptions go well. So, are you considering adoption? Are you worried?…confused?…excited? Wondering, “Will I be a good parent? How … More »
Climb Every Mountain
By Debra K. Waranch, LCSW-C Congratulations! If you are reading this, your child is going to graduate from high school this spring and move on to college next year. Take time to celebrate this accomplishment. Your child has had quite a climb from elementary school, through middle school and now high school, and has reached … More »
Do You Dread “The Talk”?
By Karen James, LCSW-C Are you avoiding having “The Talk” with your children? Usually the things we avoid doing and procrastinate about just grow bigger and bigger—-as does our anxiety. Those anxious feelings and avoiding behaviors just feed on each other. And during that feeding frenzy, they also gnaw away at our self-confidence. No wonder … More »
It’s 7 P.M. Saturday Night. Do You Know Where Your Teens Are?
By Stan Scherr Remember the good old days before Facebook, cell phones, and words like uploading, downloading, texting and lol? Parents use to be home when teens went out on Saturday night. They knew their kids’ friends, dates, and where they were going. Sometimes they even took pictures (not “pics”) of their teens. Parents complained … More »