by Chris Jones | Apr 18, 2019 | Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Preteens & Teens
By Susan Sachs Lipman April is Financial Literacy Month and there’s no time like the present to give your kids some lessons that they can use for their entire lives. This is especially urgent, given some recent alarming statistics about financial literacy that...
by Chris Jones | Apr 10, 2019 | Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Preschool, Toddlers
In my experience as both a parent and child psychologist, emotional outbursts are one of the most concerning and frequent issues children are referred for. If you think about it, childhood is a pretty frustrating period of life, especially during a pandemic....
by Chris Jones | Mar 18, 2019 | Birth - First Year, News, Toddlers
Our 5th Annual Parents Place Family Fun Day will take place Sunday, April 28, from 11 am — 1:30 pm. All families with young children aged birth through seven are encouraged to attend. Bounce around in the toddler fun zone, rock out to live music, and sample delicious...
by Chris Jones | Feb 27, 2019 | Leisure & Vacation, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Technology
By Havi Wolfson Hall, LCSW, Child and Adolescent Specialist in JFCS’s Children’s Clinical Services Department After watching episodes of Marie Kondo’s Netflix series Tidying Up, I couldn’t help but see the correlation between her work and the...
by Chris Jones | Feb 20, 2019 | Preteens & Teens, Raising Boys, Toddlers
By Alyse Clayman, LCSW, Clinical and Site Director, Parents Place, Marin “Be kind! Quiet Down! Be polite! Don’t be so sassy! Stop yelling.” We’ve all said things like this to our daughters. While we do want to raise thoughtful, polite children, our girls...
by Chris Jones | Feb 4, 2019 | Education
By Mimi Ezray, LCSW, MPH, Director of Children’s Clinical Services at Parents Place on the Peninsula It’s that time of year again. The days are shorter, it’s cold outside, and many high school seniors have finished their college applications and are...
by Chris Jones | Jan 16, 2019 | Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips
By Joanna Faber and Julie King, authors and workshop leaders at Parents Place Parenting advice can give you whiplash. Be consistent but flexible, kind but firm, always supportive but never hovering. One of our favorite crazy-making contradictions is: It’s...
by Chris Jones | Dec 13, 2018 | Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Toddlers
By Beth Berkowitz, Psy.D, Director of Children’s Clinical Services and Child Training Institute at JFCS’ Parents Place. We have all heard about left-brained people and right-brained people before. While it is true that many of us are dominated to some...
by Chris Jones | Nov 30, 2018 | Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Preschool, Toddlers
The preschool years are a time when young children begin to develop deeper friendships with peers. This is the age of the first “BFFs” (Best Friends Forever), when children gravitate toward peers who share similar interests or play styles. Preferences emerge within...
by Chris Jones | Oct 25, 2018 | Leisure & Vacation, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Toddlers
By Stephanie Agnew, Assistant Director of Parents Place on the Peninsula My “Grandtwins” just turned 18 months old. I am so fortunate that they live close by and I get to spend at least one day a week with them. I am being reminded of why I have always loved this age...
