Choosing Schools, Education Public or Private Elementary School: Making the Best Choice for Your Family Choosing an elementary school for your child can be a daunting process. In the Bay Area, we have many choices, which is good and bad... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills The Worried Warrior: Teaching Your Child to Be Brave I recently heard about a 3rd grade classroom that engaged in an exercise to determine which of the students were “worriers” and which... Continue Reading
Preteens & Teens, Raising Boys, Raising Girls Breaking the Ice: Talking to Your Children about … um, Sex “When did you lose your virginity?” Don’t be surprised if your son or daughter asks you that or another intimate question.... Continue Reading
Birth - First Year, Parenting Skills, Toddlers The Only Child Bond—Saying Good-Bye Recently, one of my clients who is expecting her second child expressed feelings of sadness and guilt over her pregnancy because she was... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Tips The Parenting Highway Balancing Nurture and Structure in Your Relationship with Your Child As a parent, you’ve probably come across the idea that we all... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills Parents as Translators When a young child falls down and hurts him or herself, many parents naturally reach out and console the child with a hug and soothing... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills, Raising Boys, Raising Girls Brain Power — How to Get Stinkin’ Thinkin’ Kids to Be Positive The mind is powerful. Simple words generated by our mind greatly affect how we feel and what we do. Many thought patterns can become... Continue Reading
Media Safety, Preteens & Teens When Should We Pull the Plug? Children & Media Joy, a mother of three, recently came to Parents Place because she thought her kids had a serious addiction … to their laptops, phones,... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills, Raising Boys, Raising Girls Going to the Office with Mommy or Daddy—the Positive Discipline Way ‘Tis the season when the kids may be between summertime activities and you might find yourselves without babysitter and childcare at... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills, Raising Boys, Raising Girls, Toddlers Keeping Your Cool During the Meltdowns As a child psychologist and father of three strong-willed girls, I have faced my share of meltdowns: from screaming to stomping, name... Continue Reading
