Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
Caregivers can acquire new skills rapidly, as they practice in the moment with the caring support of a therapist. Lori Ann Wagner, LPCC, CCMHC, NCC The battles in your home ...
Holidays, Parenting, Relationships, Spring
This Is Our Wish for You on Mother’s Day
The past several weeks have ushered in Infertility Awareness Week, Mental Health Awareness Month, and Mother’s Day. And we know that with these public acknowledgements come a wide range of ...
Back to School, Fall, Parenting, Seasonal
Back to School Anxiety: 6 Strategies for Parents
Your job isn’t to make things perfect… we are not here to protect them from reality but to support them as they actually face it. Mary Anne Ware Maybe it’s ...
Perinatal and Postpartum Anxiety: What to Watch For
Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary — it’s an act of infinite optimism. Gilda Radner Motherhood. It’s hard ...
Holidays, Parenting, Relationships, Summer
Father or Not, This is Our Wish for You
This weekend marks the annual celebration of Father’s Day. For some of us, this offers a welcome opportunity to experience joy amid the grief we’ve been processing. For others, the public ...
5 Ways to Help Kids Navigate Cell Phone Use
Kids and cell phone use. From mildly annoying to bordering on addiction… Their interactions with these devices give us plenty to wonder (and stress) about. Let’s look at how you ...
Back to School, Fall, Parenting, Seasonal
Back to School: 7 Simple Ways to Ease the Transition
{ Back-to-school transition } Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from. Jen Hatmaker The air is crisping up. The Halloween merchandise ...
Summer Break: 9 Tips for Transitioning with Ease
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was ...
Video Games: Separating Fact from Myth
Most people think video games are all about a child staring at a TV with a joystick in his hands. I don’t. They should belong to the entire family. Shigeru ...