Raising Strong Girls Together
By: Mary Jo Rapini, MEd, LPC. With the recent happenings in Boston and Texas, I am reminded of our “little ones.” If you are a parent, your child monitors their reaction by watching yours. Here are a few suggestions to help you help your child. 1. Parents are a barometer for their children, and children [...]
By: Emily Bradbury. Becoming a foster career is perhaps the most rewarding thing you can do. You can help give a child a brand new chance at life, and offer them the love and care that is so often missing in their birth homes. However when you already have a daughter, deciding to foster can [...]
By: Mary Jo Rapini, MEd, LPC. More than fifty percent of all children are raised in single parent families in the United States. But, many of these later become blended families. This is never easy. In fact, the joining of two distinct families is often a major cause of divorce among second marriages. Blending families [...]
By: Kyra Kuik. Everyday life often gets in the way of the all the important mother-daughter relationship: from getting dinner on the table to making sure the homework gets done on time, sometimes it’s easy to forget to spend quality time together. If you’re looking for ways to add some fun back into your mother-daughter [...]
By: Mary Jo Rapini, MEd, LPC. The school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut has us all asking the same question…Why? Understanding why something of this magnitude happened may help us feel more in control with our own surroundings, but it won’t alleviate our children’s fears. Twenty 6 and 7-year-olds were gunned down while they were in [...]
By: Karen Boyarsky. Remember when you were little and your dad would lift you high above his head, or tell you that you were his special girl? Your pop was helping your practice your skills with men for the future in a safe environment and while we can’t always depend on pop songs to teach [...]
By: Mary Jo Rapini, MEd, LPC. I was out for dinner last week. My husband and I went to a family restaurant we both really like. It’s low key, just the right amount of noise, and the food is wholesome and fresh. The restaurant attracts families because of the prices, but the families eating there [...]
By: Cheryl Tallman. Homemade foods have always been healthier than processed, prepared, or restaurant meals which are generally much higher in fat, salt and calories than home cooked foods. Eating too much of these unhealthy foods can pack on the Holiday pounds and slow your kids down at school. But let’s face it, the days [...]
By: Meredith Kimelblatt. All right, parents, show of hands. How many times have you spent hours in the kitchen prepping a meal you’re sure the whole family will love, only to have one or all of your kids staunchly refuse to even taste it? Alternatively, maybe you’ve flipped through a magazine and noticed yourself skipping [...]
By: Cheryl Tallman. Adding a warm cup of delicious soup to your holiday menu can help to stimulate the appetite without filling you up. Homemade soups are a great way to kick off your holiday meal, and they make great leftovers for a light lunch. And while pies are the norm at the Thanksgiving table, [...]
