Discipline & Behavior, Raising Girls, Special Challenges Cutting and Self-Injury: What Parents Need to Know At a recent panel discussion on teen behaviors, the audience of parents expressed concern about the prevalence of “cutting” and other... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior Encouraging the Highly Competent Child All parents, no matter their circumstances, education, and values, share one fundamental belief: We want the very best for our children.... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior What Your Kids Want You to Know but Aren’t Able to Say: Insider Information from the Clinical Eye I’m sure you can picture the scene. You have repeatedly told your child that food goes on the plate or in your mouth. He looks you... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior Learning to Cope with Strong Emotions Young children are experts at expressing a wide range of powerful emotions daily. From gleeful excitement to intense anger,... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior Helpful Ways to Deal with Difficult Feelings Stress, anger, frustration, and other “negative” feelings—they’re a part of everyone’s life: yours, your spouse’s or... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Toddlers Guidelines for Setting Limits With Your Toddler Toddlers—wild and wooley, heart-melting and frustrating, fun and challenging. Often the biggest challenge for parents is how best to... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior Doesn’t My Child Care? Jill, a Sonoma County parent, was deeply distressed when her 9-year-old came home from school and told her that a classmate’s... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills Don’t “Just Say No” “No” is a powerful and useful word that can help keep you and your children safe, comfortable, healthy, and responsible. But it’s... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills, Temperaments Is That Me Yelling? Parents, you are not alone! If you find yourself yelling at your kids most days, it’s time to understand more about why you yell... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Raising Boys, Raising Girls, Temperaments A Modest Proposal: A Preschool Satire* The Huffington Post recently reported that an unnamed preschool moved to ban superhero play because some children were getting hurt from... Continue Reading
