Parents' Role in Helping Kids Apply to College
An internal debate that explores parents’ dilemmas.read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - January 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marty Nemko, Ph.D. Tags: Education Parenting applying to college Source Type: news
Young Children Are Curious
It is very important to be patient with your child. read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - January 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Meri Wallace, LCSW Tags: Child Development Parenting Source Type: news
Everything You Need To Know, You Learn From Siblings
There are many basic social situations that happen early in life with siblings that can offer a training ground for working on social and emotional development. read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - January 6, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Avidan Milevsky, Ph.D. Tags: Parenting Relationships fighting parents siblings Source Type: news
Don’t Spank Me!
“A study in 20 American cities, published in the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2013, found that young children in homes with little or no spanking showed swifter cognitive development than their peers. Other studies find that children in physically punitive schools perform worse.”read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - January 6, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Elizabeth Wagele Tags: Child Development Parenting cognitive development in children drug an alxohol use spanking Source Type: news
Protect (All) Your Boys from Early Trauma
It sounds like a conspiracy. The government is about to officially sanction intentional harming of infants. They want medical personnel to pressure parents to accept infant, child, even teen circumcision. Not only is the move based on faulty data and reasoning, it is unethical.read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - January 6, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D. Tags: Child Development Ethics and Morality Health Parenting AIDS circumcision HIV infant circumcision stds Source Type: news
The Multifaceted Native American Naming Tradition
Native Americans have a multifaceted and evolving naming tradition that can revive and inspire our own sense of identity.read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - January 6, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Elisabeth Pearson Waugaman, Ph.D. Tags: Creativity Parenting Self-Help bond children earn environmental evolving grow inspire naming tradition Native American psychological social spiritual Source Type: news
10 Things Great Parents Do
A (printable) summary of parenting best practicesread more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - January 5, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Erica Reischer, Ph.D. Tags: Child Development Happiness Parenting Relationships best practices children raising kids Source Type: news
3 Steps to Stay Calm When Your Child Isn't
If we "lose it" when our child gets upset, we give her the message that her feelings aren't permitted. read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - January 5, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Laura Markham, Ph.D. Tags: Parenting Source Type: news
How to Create Healthier Anger in Your Children
While telling your child to "stop crying" isn't emotional child abuse per se, your child may still need help with depression, addiction, or other issues later in life. This cycle can be stopped, however, if we learn how to create healthier anger in our kids, and in ourselves. read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - January 5, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Andrea Brandt, Ph.D. M.F.T. Tags: Child Development Happiness Parenting Relationships Source Type: news
Why Listen to Your Adolescent?
Listening to your adolescent has many benefits; not listening to your adolescent has many costs.read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - January 5, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Carl E. Pickhardt, Ph.D. Tags: Child Development Education Parenting Relationships how listening works learning from listening listening = worth listening to listening affirms listening encourages listening listening encourages speaking up listening is hard for pare Source Type: news
I Know a Woman Who: The Magical Munchkin Years
Often the most important facet of happiness is under our nose. Join us in the story of grandmother Abbe, whose life teaches her quickly what is central to her happiness and how to achieve it with ease. Dr. Christopher Peterson taught her, and us, that “Other people matter. And we are among the other people who matter the most.”read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - January 5, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Judith Coche, Ph.D., ABPP Tags: Child Development Happiness Parenting Resilience Source Type: news
Getting Kids To Do Things: The Foot In The Door
Feel like all you do is nag your kid? It can be hard to help kids do what has to be done. Starting small can help.read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - January 4, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nancy Darling, Ph.D. Tags: Child Development Parenting Relationships Social Life discipline door in the face door-in-the-face foot in the door foot-in-the-door homework persuasion Source Type: news
Everyday Trauma, Everyday Resilience
Research at the interface of child development and neuroscience offers insight in to development of resilience. By listening to the story of parent and child, there is opportunity to point development in a healthy direction and avoid repeating unhealthy patterns from previous generations.read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - January 4, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Claudia M. Gold, M.D. Tags: Animal Behavior Child Development Neuroscience Parenting Source Type: news
Evolving the Prevention System That We Need
Imagine preventing most psychological and behavioral problemsread more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - January 3, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anthony Biglan, Ph.D. Tags: Child Development Education Parenting Source Type: news
Pathologising Adolescence
Young people on the whole are not ill but are beset by developmental transitions and dilemmas. We need to stop pathologising adolescence and build the coping capacities of non-specialists.read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - January 3, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nick Luxmoore Tags: Child Development Health Parenting Psychiatry Source Type: news
