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Are you struggling with a parenting challenge? Do you receive parenting advice from friends, family and other sources but question whether it is accurate or if it is really best for your child? The following parenting myths are based on my clinical and teaching experience, and my experience raising my own four boys, as well as research into the literature on parenting and the wise guidance of my mentors.
Read MoreIn many families, it can be extremely challenging figuring out how to get your child to brush their teeth. He or she may be getting cavities, the dentist is complaining, but your child simply does not want to brush. It has become a battle of wills and everyone is losing.
Read MoreThe following important tips for a new parent comes from my experience raising my own four boys, my clinical experience working with parents, research I’ve done on parenting infants, and the wise counsel of my mentors. Please be advised that this represents a parenting ideal, and I don’t expect anyone to fulfill it perfectly. Rather have patience with yourself and try to incorporate new ideas gradually.
Read MoreFocus, above all, on building the parent-child relationship. It is the foundation on which all your child’s well-being lies. You have the opportunity to create a reservoir of trust, mutual confidence, reason, explanation, negotiation, accommodation, consideration, unconditional love and approval. When misbehaviour or problems arise, you can draw on this reservoir and resolve the issues, and you will therefore not need punishment, force or other harsh tactics. Children are very eager to please parents when they enjoy this warm relationship.
Read More“My parents used to hit me all the time and I turned out okay,” you may say. Maybe you’ve thought, “How am I going to teach him a lesson if I can’t hit him?” or “When I get angry, I can’t control myself and I just spank him. Then, although I have discharged my anger, I feel very guilty.” The truth is, clinical experience indicates that many parents hit their kids every once in a while. However, there are a number of concerning problems with adopting spanking as a planned method of discipline, which may leave you wondering: to spank or not to spank?
Read MoreParenting requires a great deal of patience. Children can really press our buttons, and sometimes, you may need to really work hard to keep calm. They can constantly ask us for things, and it can feel overwhelming because their requests seem endless. But there is someone else who also deserves generous patience. You. It is okay to cut yourself slack and have patience with your progress as a parent. Changing old habits is a process, and it must be done gradually. It’s like a doctor that gives you medicine and says, “Take one pill every day for two weeks.” What if you said, “I’m going to get better really fast. I’m going to take all 14 pills in one day!” How well would that work? The same goes for parenting counseling.
Read MoreThere is a common situation that many emotionally unhealthy individuals find themselves in. They alternate between feeling very badly about themselves, that is suffering from very poor self-esteem on the one hand, but on the other hand feeling very grandiose, superior and amazing. This is nothing but an attempt to bounce themselves out of those bad feelings by imagining themselves having superior, amazing qualities, which are so great that they can redeem him from even the most terrible feelings of low self-worth.
Read MoreSome people unfortunately very deep down inside feel badly about themselves. They suffer from chronic low self-worth or low self-esteem. Often times such people develop a strategy to relieve themselves of such feelings. They think "All I have to do is accomplish great things and then I will be a worthy person deserving of high self-esteem. Then I will feel good about myself." So begins the quest for accomplishment. It can be a lifelong endeavor, seeking goal after goal in the hopes that just one more great success will finally relieve the person’s poor feelings about himself.
Read MoreDo you know people who truly need good psychotherapy but seem to be unmotivated to pursue it seriously? Maybe you know someone who started therapy but just when he began to get better he quit. How do we understand this peculiar self-defeating behavior? Alice Miller, the famed psychotherapist who explained the role of childhood in emotional illness, explains the top reasons why people avoid psychotherapy in the title of her magnum opus, The Drama of the Gifted Child. What gift does the child have? He or she has the amazing ability to survive childhood trauma.
Read MoreAnger is the natural emotion that the body uses to protect itself. It is actually part of the immune system. It is an automatic response to being threatened or hurt. If someone elbowed you in the face on the subway what would you feel?
Read MoreAnxiety depression and other emotional health problems have their roots in the patient’s early childhood history. Many people suffering from these issues report at first, “I had a wonderful childhood, I was very happy,” but then in therapy reveal that their childhood was actually troubled and their relationship with their parents was conflicted, and although their parents were loving and well-intentioned they may have made some unfortunate but serious mistakes
Read MoreA perfectionist is someone who deep down inside feels terrible about himself and tries to redeem himself from that poor self-image by achieving a perfect performance or by accomplishing truly amazing things. He feels that if he can finally get things just right, then and only then will he be a worthwhile person, but if he achieves any less than perfect he remains with feelings of being a failure. However in considering how to treat perfectionism in young people, we must remember that this goal is an illusion that never succeeds, since even the most perfect performance cannot cure low self-esteem.
Read MoreThousands of people with the above conditions have been cured through good psychotherapy alone! I myself have seen many people experience tremendous relief. What are these disorders all about?
Read MoreAre you an adult living with anxiety, depression, family conflict, or other mental health issues? Did you ever wonder how psychotherapy can help? How can very real, even physical, symptoms be relieved simply by talking to someone?
Read MoreHave you participated in 12-Step meetings for years, and found them helpful, but still feel that something is missing? Do you know people who work those programs diligently, but still suffer from major emotional health problems and unhealthy lifestyles? Would you like to finally find true and lasting recovery?
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