5 Reasons to Stop Breaking Promises to Your Child and 4 Tips for Success
Our children are always watching and applying narratives to our behavior. In the early years, they don’t always give us [...]
Our children are always watching and applying narratives to our behavior. In the early years, they don’t always give us [...]
The Gottman Institute uses the metaphor of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse to describe communication styles that, according to their [...]
One of the most common things I hear from parents all the time is that they just don’t understand why [...]
To me, the hardest part is knowing what the right thing is, after that it is very hard to do [...]
I’ve worked with thousands of troubled teens. In fact, during my time working in the juvenile justice system I worked [...]
At some point the realization sets in; my child is not behaving as I’d hoped. Not just today, but on [...]
Parent and Teen Battle Topics When our emotions take over they can often get the best of us. [...]
Traditional therapy fails parents by focusing on the child as a problem. It labels them as 'troubled teens', or other [...]
A few months ago I sat in my weekly adolescent Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills (DBT) group about to teach [...]