Parenting

• Why Is My Child Being Bullied?

  It is extremely stressful to find that your child is being bullied. Our role as a parent is to protect, nourish and ultimately to release our children as young adults into society where they make a positive impact. Bullying has no part to play in this scenario.

• Sibling Rivalry – Revisited

  Who imagines that Sibling Rivalry is a normal and natural activity that is neither bad nor all that different from all other human relationships?

• How To Talk With Your Kids

  Often, counseling children and adults can be a very gratifying experience. A while back, I had a father who joined the counseling process with his teenage son. I had been seeing the son for individual sessions. The father requested being involved, with his son’s agreement, so that the two of them could learn more effective ways of communicating about significant issues.

• Creating Balance In A Child’s Life

  I am making a passionate plea to parents and teachers who believe that schooling is the alpha and omega of a child’s life. Often, schools have convinced students and parents that a child’s focus must exclusively be centered on academic concerns during every waking hour.

• A Fresh Look At Schooling: The Role of Grades (Part 3 of 3)

  The purpose of schooling is to teach our children to learn and produce quality work. In order to accomplish this goal, our schools must re-think the ways in which they view the educational process.

• A Fresh Look At Schooling: The Role of Homework (Part 2 of 3)

  People don’t get better at dealing with unhappiness, failure and disappointment because they were deliberately exposed to difficulties as youngsters. To the contrary, it is one’s experience with success, affirmation and unconditional acceptance that helps kids deal constructively with later frustration and failure.

• A Fresh Look At Schooling: The Role Of Competition (Part 1 of 3)

  Competition in schools is used as a method to motivate students. However, competition is not a very effective academic motivator, particularly for young students at the elementary and middle school level; if it was, we would have more students experiencing success.

• The Post Kindergarten Blues: What To Know To Help Your Little One Start First Grade

  Now that we are close to the end of our first six weeks as a first grade family, I feel confident in sharing with you some of the shocks and secrets of entering what I now consider to be “real school”: first grade.