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How to Teach Your Kids to Appreciate Others
Is the old adage true — ‘tis better to give than to receive? In this holiday season, which for many children represents an annual Get-Fest, it’s worth thinking about the virtues of giving versus receiving.
Why We Feel Attached to Our Partner
Think it’s only the little tykes who seek security by clinging to their tattered blanket, like sweet Linus from the Peanuts gang dragging his security blanket everywhere? Think it’s only kids who get deeply attached to something — or someone — and look to it for absolute comfort? Think again.
Help Your Kids Learn that "Good Enough" Is Just Fine
Life is a balancing act as we apportion energy across family, career, personal time, social life, and more. We know we’d drive ourselves crazy if everything we do needed to measure up literally to our “best.” And yet it’s hard to find a parent who doesn’t regularly tell their children, especially when it comes to schoolwork or athletics: always do your best. Not sometimes, not…
Prioritize Your Relationship's Welfare over Your Ego
It happens all the time with our partner: the wish to win the argument, to Be Right, without regard for collateral damage. But too often, my personal “win” becomes a “loss” for us. Despite my victory, we’re feeling disconnected, no closer than when the argument began.
Ways to Teach Your Kids About Self-compassion
In moments of frustration, many of us use self-demeaning expressions. Or we sigh and our face transmits the deep disappointment we’re feeling toward ourselves. In those moments, we’re failing to offer ourselves compassion — the kindness, caring and understanding we might offer a friend or even a stranger. We’re forgetting when we put ourselves down that imperfection is part of…
Texting Is a Bad Idea During Times of Conflict
In this text exchange, the responder might be playful … or angry … or indifferent — we can’t know for sure. That’s because all we see are the words; we don’t hear emotion.
Lessons Your Child Can Learn from Failure
Do you let your four-year-old always win at CandyLand, or your eight-year-old at Monopoly? Do you fake fatigue at tennis so your twelve-year-old comes out ahead? Many well-intentioned parents purposely dumb down their game in the belief that it will be more fun for the youngsters if they come out the winner — and maybe, through all those victories, enjoy a boost to their self-…
Parallel Play Shouldn't Be the Norm of Your Relationship
Have you ever seen two-year-olds side by side in a playground sandbox, shoveling sand into their pails but essentially indifferent to one another’s behavior — leaving each other alone as they tend to their own activity? It’s called parallel play, each toddler engaged in an independent activity that is similar to but not influenced by or shared with the others.