Put Your Marriage First and Your Children Second

Important But Not Urgent

For a great many couples with children, it isn’t the spouse who’s most valued — it’s the kids. At least within the middle and upper-middle-class, today’s couples tend to place kids at the top of the priority ladder, with the partner relationship landing in second or even third place (behind career).

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How to be Mindful When Disciplining Your Kids

Mindful Parenting

Which of your "brains" do you use when you discipline your kids — your emotional brain, or your logical brain?
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Don't Let Your Kids Sacrifice Sleep

Enough Sleep

With the start of the new school year, routines are taking shape. Youngsters are assembling the complex puzzle in which homework, activities, sports, social life and family time compete for a limited number of hours in the day. Frequently it seems there’s not enough time to do it all, that something’s got to give. What often gives?

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Show Your Kids that They Have Your Attention

Paying Attention

A local summer camp recently asked its 6- and 7-year-olds to answer a simple question: name something you’d like your parents to start doing with you.

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Why You Shouldn't be too Involved with Your Kids' Homework

Whose Homework?

For too many families, homework time has become the organizing element in the hours between 5 and 10 p.m., dictating when dinner is served, how parents spend their evening, what family activities can or cannot occur.

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A Book that Every Parent Should Have

Fifty Years of Dreikurs

In the car, the kids get noisy and rambunctious. You’re distracted by their bickering and loud voices. You’ve admonished them many times during car rides but their behavior hasn’t changed. What should you do?
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Enhancing the role of the father in children's development

A contextually informed approach

Fathers play an important role in children’s development, and the ways in which they can make significant, positive contributions is quite notable (Parke et al., 2005). A variety of research studies have found that fathers’ emotional support, relationship with their children, and financial care-taking are all associated with children’s well-being, cognitive development, and social competence (e.g., Lamb & Tamis-LeMonda, 2004).
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Resiliency in Adulthood

Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse

Childhood experiences greatly influence our adult relationships, choices, and habits. Some experiences children face, though, are far more detrimental than others. Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is an atrocity that causes a great deal of pain and suffering for adult survivors, and researchers have continued to study the long-term effects of CSA on adults.
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Tips to Understand Your Kids' Feelings

Are You Okay?

We say it often — “Are you okay?” — when we notice that our child’s mood seems “off,” or he’s experiencing an emotional setback, or she’s tripped on the pavement or fallen off her bike. We say it because we care; we’re concerned.
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Want to Truly Connect with Your Kids? Establish Device-free Zones

Sacred Spaces With Kids

Is it ever easy to connect with our children, to get them to open up about their lives? Surprisingly, it’s what they yearn for — to be truly seen and heard in all their authentic dreams and hopes and fears. It’s what we all desire, but kids need it differently than we do.

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