The Most Important Thing I Learned Last Year
Sometimes you have to see something familiar from a different perspective to realize just how much you don’t know about it. That’s the kind of experience I had last year. An experience that revealed to me just how much I don’t know about what the world looks like through the eyes of girls and women. read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - January 2, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: E. Paul Zehr, Ph.D. Tags: Gender Happiness Memory Neuroscience Parenting Race and Ethnicity Sport and Competition Source Type: news
Girl Power is the New "It" Movement
Girl Power is the new “It” movement, and it is, without doubt, a much-needed movement.
Yet, we are in need of a movement for boys. We need a movement that makes it trendy for boys to be nurturing, emotionally expressive, verbal, and non-violent. We need a cultural movement that treats nurturance and cooperation as skills that are just as important as engineering. read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - January 2, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Christia S. Brown, Ph.D. Tags: Child Development Gender Parenting Source Type: news
Judge Says Rehoming Is Trafficking
Long Island Judge prevents Long Island couple from re-homing without court supervisionread more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - January 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tina Traster Tags: Child Development Law and Crime Parenting Long Island couple rehoming Russian adoption Source Type: news
Your Kid Has a Mental Health Disorder?
I know it sounds corny, but Love helps. It does. Platonic or romantic or filial or parental or sibling love. Doesn’t matter, it’s all a healing balm. Spread it around generously. And wrap your wounded hearts in a gauze of generosity and forgiveness--for yourself, for each other, for the universe that dealt you a crappy hand.
read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - January 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Deborah Vlock, Ph.D. Tags: Parenting Resilience Self-Help Source Type: news
Are You a Distracted Parent?
We live in a technology-saturated time. Our smart phones and tablets are useful and very compelling, but there’s no question that they can pull us away from being present to our children. On the other hand, constantly staring at our kids in rapture is neither realistic nor desirable. read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - January 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Ph.D. Tags: Child Development Parenting Relationships attention cell phone use distracted parent distracted parenting smart phones Source Type: news
Mother’s Intuition: Do You Have It?
Wouldn’t it be nice if we automatically knew the best way to raise our children? Intuition involves “gut feelings” that happen without conscious or deliberate weighing of facts, and it has been well documented by research. But what does this mean for parents?read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - January 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Ph.D. Tags: Child Development Parenting Relationships intuition maternal instinct mother ' s intuition Source Type: news
How Babies Tell Us They're Musical Before They Can Speak
How do infants express musicality before they can form their first full sentences?read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - December 31, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Siu-Lan Tan, Ph.D. Tags: Child Development Cognition Creativity Parenting babies baby Beatles broader children creative expression dancing dancing twins developmental psychology Diogo Do You Want to Build a Snowman? frozen how do babies tell us the Source Type: news
Do Not Panic if Your Toddler Is Biting Her Friends
Often very young children are not capable of engaging in actual aggression even if the behavior looks like aggression and results in harm. read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - December 31, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jamie Ostrov, Ph.D. Tags: Child Development Parenting aggression infants and young children Source Type: news
Learn to Say "No"
Why do people have such a hard time saying no?
Have you ever met a person who had difficulty saying no- to friends, to significant others, to bosses? Or worse, have you seen parents who have trouble saying “no” to their kids?...
...Maybe they haven’t learned to say, “I love you too much to agree to something that could mess up our relationship, or your future.”read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - December 31, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Melissa Deuter, M.D. Tags: Child Development Ethics and Morality Parenting Resilience Source Type: news
Think Differently About Intelligence: It's All in Your Head
Which do you think is more predictive of success: innate ability or hard work? Do you think anyone can rise up to meet a challenge with enough effort, or are some people just more intelligent and able than others? It seems like there should be a true answer to these questions, but according to Dr. Carol Dweck, the truth is all in your head. read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - December 30, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Amie M. Gordon, PhD Tags: Child Development Cognition Education Intelligence Parenting Personality entity growth mindset incremental new year ' s resolution Source Type: news
What is Anger?
Anger is often overlooked or misunderstood in psychopathology as well as in everyday relationships. In pathology, one sees anger behind a variety of symptoms. Clinical work shows us that fear of anger and loss of control often are behind these symptoms.read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - December 30, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Paul C. Holinger, M.D. Tags: Child Development Evolutionary Psychology Parenting child and adolescent development child psychotherapy relationship between parent and child Source Type: news
How Legalizing Marijuana Lures Teens
Already some two million teens smoke pot. We have sex-ed classes for teens that aren’t supposed to be having sex. Shouldn’t we be having marijuana-ed classes as well? Legalizing marijuana sends mixed message to teens. The claim that casual marijuana use is harmless is a myth. How to make your teen less vulnerable.read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - December 30, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Susan Newman, Ph.D. Tags: Behavioral Economics Child Development Parenting brain research drug use Francesca Filbey Jodi Gilman Marc Aronoff marijuana medical marijuana northwestern university One Toke Partnership for Drug Free Kids smoking pot Tara Par Source Type: news
Holding Onto Hope When a Medical Prognosis is Grim
Receiving a grim medical prognosis is emotionally overwhelming. You may be concerned when a patient or family remains in denial, seems delusional, or holds onto unrealistic hopes. Is living a fantasy or reaching for miracles a sign of serious maladjustment? Resist pushing folks to "get a grip on reality" and trust their process for coming to terms with the situation.read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - December 30, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Deborah L. Davis, Ph.D. Tags: Aging Parenting Resilience Stress ambition brain injury confidence death delusional thinking denial disability driving dying end-of-life decisions expectations genetic condition grim prognosis hope life-limiting medic Source Type: news
Autism Adult Transition: My Son Moves Into His Own Place
In September, Jeremy moved into his own place. For Jeremy who is autistic, who communicates by typing and has many sensori-motor challenges, moving meant more than just transferring to another living space. read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - December 29, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Chantal Sicile-Kira Tags: Autism Parenting Resilience Self-Help Asperger ' s syndrome daily life Independence self-regulation young adults Source Type: news
On Women and Work
How much should women have to work ? read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - December 29, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sheila Kohler Tags: Parenting Work Source Type: news
