Why Your Kids Are Ignoring You
You may be unintentionally teaching your kids to ignore what you sayread more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - November 5, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Erica Reischer, Ph.D. Tags: Child Development Parenting Procrastination Relationships communication habits kids life skills listening Source Type: news
Shattered Image
Do you struggle with critical views of yourself? Find ways to challenge them. Write them away!read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - November 5, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Martha Peaslee Levine, M.D. Tags: Happiness Parenting Resilience Self-Help gratitude image journaling joy negative words strength Source Type: news
What’s the Purpose of Homework?
Remember the days of sitting in class waiting eagerly for the bell to ring before the teacher said that dreaded word…“homework”? Sighs, rolling eyes and grunts quickly filled the quiet classroom at the mention of “that” word.
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Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - November 5, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Raychelle Cassada Lohmann, M.S., L.P.C. Tags: Child Development Education Parenting Balnaced Homework Routine homework struggles teens and school Source Type: news
Natural Consequences
The benefits of facing natural consequences.read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - November 4, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mendi Baron Tags: Environment Parenting Source Type: news
Letting Go and Being Okay
What has this journey of parenting kids with learning differences meant to you? How has it transformed you? One mother gives us her answer.read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - November 4, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Samantha Smithstein, Psy.D. Tags: Child Development Happiness Parenting Resilience 12-steps alanon attention differences learning differences transformation Source Type: news
Earth Has Ebola: An Open Pre-election Letter
Our step forward together into a future the Earth has never seen before, and that humanity is asked to face, can make future Halloweens a lot less scary than this one...if we are willing to do what needs to be done, right now.read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rachel Clark Tags: Environment Ethics and Morality Media Parenting capitalism climate change Cosmos dysfunction Earth has Ebola election factory farming industrial agriculture Naomi Klein neil degrasse tyson ocean acidification open letter pr Source Type: news
Will You Spank Your Kid After Reading This?
Most of us have heard the maxim "spare the rod, spoil the child," and unless we have been in a news-free vacuum, most of us know by now, through the charges read in a Texas courtroom and even by his own admission, that football star Adrian Peterson took those words to heart.read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jason Powers, M.D. Tags: Child Development Ethics and Morality Law and Crime Parenting childhood abuse discipline children Source Type: news
Failing in School vs. Playing Sports
Should underachievement in the classroom keep kids from playing sports?read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Frank L. Smoll, Ph.D. Tags: Child Development Education Parenting Sport and Competition academic achievement grades in school kids and sports parenting tips youth sports Source Type: news
4 Words of Kindness to Teach Gratitude to Your Children
Gloria believes that all good actions must come from the heart. So her catchphrase for gratitude is “Have a grateful heart.” Whenever her two children start to take what they have for granted, she invokes “Have a grateful heart.” read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jim Taylor, Ph.D. Tags: Child Development Parenting appreciation caring children empathy family gratitude happiness love narcissism stress thank you values Source Type: news
An Open Letter to Sigourney Weaver
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Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ellen Walker, Ph.D. Tags: Happiness Parenting Relationships aliens childfree by choice children Complete Without Kids Ellen Walker Sigourney Weaver Source Type: news
The Problem with Praise
This article examines how parents, teachers and coach shoud and should not use praise and criticism.read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - November 1, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Richard Bailey, Ph.D. Tags: Child Development Education Happiness Parenting Sport and Competition criticism feedback praise youth sports Source Type: news
Why Halloween Makes Us Act Antisocial
As the children take to the streets tonight in search of a trick-or-treat, you might be wondering the best way to protect your house from some heavy candy-looting. In 1976, Ed Diener and his colleagues asked a similar question, though they were more interested in the conditions that prompted trick-or-treaters to overindulge and take more than they should. read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - October 31, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Amie M. Gordon, PhD Tags: Ethics and Morality Parenting Social Life antisocial behavior costumes Deindividuation group dynamics halloween trick-or-treating Source Type: news
The Continuity of Traits
The faith in the preservation of infant experience is inconsistent with the evidence. read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - October 31, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jerome Kagan, Ph.D. Tags: Parenting Source Type: news
Should Targeted Parents Send Alienated Children Books
There is no magic wandread more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - October 31, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Amy J.L. Baker, Ph.D. Tags: Parenting Source Type: news
Surviving Parental Alienation, Part 2
Many social phenomena have tipping points and parental alienation is no exceptionread more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - October 31, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Amy J.L. Baker, Ph.D. Tags: Parenting Source Type: news
