Teaching Your Child About Peers With Special Needs
Disability awareness, compassion, and making friends in the classroom J. an 8-year-old girl, is “really sweet and loves attention.” According to her mother. She goes to […]
Adolescent & Teen Behavior
Teens in danger of self-harm find help in a surprising place: Instagram
If you are a parent trying to raise a mentally healthy tween or teen, you will find social media outlets can often feel like the Wild […]
Parents, Get a Clue: What Teens are Really Doing Online Plus: Tips on How to Talk to Your Teen about Internet Safety (and a Guide to Using Myspace)
Amber* got onto Facebook when she was 12. “It was easy,” she said with a shrug. “All you have to do is lie about your age […]
Inappropriate Behavior – Why Parents Dismiss it as a Phase
Q: Why do parents tend to dismiss inappropriate behavior as “a phase?” James: When a child is between 18 months and two years old, they’ll […]
Teen Responsibility: Is There a Responsible Adult Trapped Inside Your Teenager?
What would you say to a Harvard-trained psychologist who told you that your twelve or thirteen-year-old should be allowed to drive, get married, drink alcohol, […]
How to Help Back to School Anxiety in Teens and Pre-Teens
It’s common for kids to have a lot of anxiety about the start of the school year, especially if they’re entering a new grade or […]
When Teens Lie -Dealing with Lying Teenagers
“My 17 year old son lies all the time,” a mother said to me recently. “He lies about his schoolwork, what he ate for lunch […]
Teens and Privacy: Should I Spy on My Child? Plus: The 4 Tactics Kids Use When They Get Caught
Note from James: A lot of the things we do to protect our children might be considered “spying” by our kids, but they are in […]
Toxic Friends | Hanging out with the Wrong Crowd | Empowering Parents
I’ve worked with a lot of children and teens with behavior problems over the years—and believe me, very few of their parents liked their friends. […]
How to Manage Anger in Children and Teens
It’s hard to get most adolescents to comply, but when you’re dealing with a hostile teen, it can be almost impossible. In part two of […]