Raising a teen is often likened to riding a rollercoaster, but that may be an understatement. I charted the emotions that came with parenting for a few days. It was a lot.Continue Reading
Your child’s senior year is not only a year of to-do’s, tasks and applications to finish, it is also a bit of an emotional roller coaster. Continue Reading
The lessons from our Founding Fathers in Hamilton: An American Musical are remarkably applicable to today, and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s lyrics are genius. Continue Reading
These two teens living in my house, have survived every parenting mistake I have made. No one is perfect; we are all learning as we go. And that is the one lesson, the most important lesson I have learned; as long as I am doing the best I can do, they are going to thrive.Continue Reading
Anxiety, stress, and depression are normal and valid feelings in today’s landscape. How can we help our teens to reduce stress and conflict? Continue Reading
Reality sets in when your kid slides behind the wheel. Having a teen driver can turn a laid-back parent into a hand-wringing, nail-biting nervous nelly. Continue Reading
If your daughter is heading to college next fall, you’re probably in the same place I was last year. It was my daughter’s last summer before college.Continue Reading
Her words, I hate you, kept playing over in my head. I could feel her hostility towards me, the mere fact I was standing in her room, had her head spinning. Continue Reading
Side by side, we’ll walk home, shadowy branches swaying gently overhead, their claws finger painting the constellation of a runner darting across the sky.Continue Reading
I know 13 is weird. I know some changes are happening at warp speed and some are taking their sweet time.Continue Reading
“Our neighbor’s daughter died, it was a freak accident and they are out of town…their son witnessed the whole thing… Do you have any advice to share?”Continue Reading
As our kids grow, the firsts come less frequently and the time stretched between them lengthen. We don’t celebrate the later milestones.Continue Reading
As a psychologist, I often reflect on the things that make people happy (or rather, “content.” No one is actually “happy” all the time). Through my work I get glimpses into the things that matter—the behaviors and ways of thinking that lead to satisfaction, and those that lead to misery. AndContinue Reading
With six kids, I got caught up in the day to day of family life. It’s easy to do. But when I forgot to love my husband, I realized my mistake.Continue Reading
