Raising Strong Girls Together
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: Thomas Weck. The holidays are fast approaching. Families and friends will come together for food, fun, and festivities. The kids will be excited to have time off from school, and parents will hopefully be able to spend a little more quality time with their children. Somewhere in between all the shopping, sledding, cookie baking, [...]
By: Anna M. Aquino. Children do not know the meanings of words until they are taught their meanings. I realize this sounds pretty basic.But I think often as parents we forget this small fact. I once sat in situation where I watched a little girl become a torment to her family. They kept telling her [...]
By: Liz Krause. Food can have a negative connotation these days. Listen to just a handful of health nutritionists and one is left wondering what is left to eat! However, food shouldn’t have to have such a negative image and it do not have to be the root of all things unhealthy and overweight. Not [...]
By: Mary Jo Rapini, MEd, LPC. Prom season is right around the corner, and as I see photos and video clips of the dresses worn this year, a sympathetic grimace creeps over my face. I remember all too well the dilemma of finding the perfect prom dress. Proms are a 4 billion dollar a year [...]
By: H.F. Parkhurst. Have you ever heard butterflies’ whispered songs? After many years and being a grandpoppy, I’m learning to consider children as young people. They’re bright and shiny pennies filling with the wonder of discovering the world. Like butterflies they’re just emerging from their dark cocoons. They rush this way and that as though [...]
By: Erik Fisher, PhD, aka Dr. E… In today’s society, so many of us feel that children are growing up with unhealthy values and unproductive attitudes. Children and teens are sometimes viewed as self-centered, seldom thinking about others in their family or community. While there are many factors that contribute to their behaviors and beliefs, [...]
By: Linda Brodsky, MD. Sharing the joys and challenges of raising girls is not an easy job, no siree Bob! So I thought I would try to make it easier by breaking it down into five phases which, upon looking back, were helpful to me in understanding my journey. The relationships between parent and female [...]
By: Dr. Polly Dunn. Earlier this year I happened upon an article by a respected family psychologist and parenting expert. In it, he provided lots of ideas on how parents could improve their family life, a number of which I completely agreed with. But then I got to his recommendation about family dinners. He suggested [...]
By: By Todd G. Buchholz. Back in 1986, an American minister named Robert Fulghum wrote a best-selling self-help book called All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. The book was filled with entertaining essays about sharing, cleaning up, and inspiring tales of Mother Teresa. Fulghum busted some myths — for example, that [...]
