Digital Age Parenting: Conquering the Cultural Divide
If you are a parent born before the age of the internet then you and your child were not born into the same culture. Not since the Industrial Revolution have we experienced an era in which the cultural divide between parents and kids seems to be so gr...
Surviving (Your Child’s) Adolescence
Most parents are unprepared for the normal growth changes that typically occur during their child's adolescence. For most moms and dads this is the hard half of parenting. The purpose of this weekly blog is to help parents better understand how adoles...
Helping Your Adolescent Manage Increased Emotional Intensity
Adolescence often arouses more emotional intensity than childhood. Displays of strong feeling, like upset conveyed by a sullen mood or sudden outburst or impulsive action, tend to become more common with puberty and the onset of other adolescent chang...