Not Guilty! Learning to Let Go of Guilt and Blame.

By: Linda Brodsky, MD.

Women, especially we mothers, can be our own harshest critics. And when we don’t live up to our own very high expectations, we experience one of the most destructive feelings—guilt. We take the blame. We carry the responsibility. And we always find fault. With ourselves and with [...]

Do As I Say, Not as I Do: The Challenges of Role Modeling

By: Kathleen Semp.

Recently I had the wonderful opportunity to spend some time with a new friend. We were able to talk about ourselves and our family. What came out of this night was eye-opening and changed my parenting and me forever.
We were talking about our daughters and we each have a child that fights her emotions.  [...]

Mothers Shouldn’t Try For Perfection: Perfection creates an impossible ideal.

By Linda Perlman Gordon and Susan Morris Shaffer.

“I grew up hearing the story of my mother riding on the train from Brooklyn to Long Island. She was pregnant with me while holding my sister on her lap, who, for the entire train ride wouldn’t stop screeching. When we were teenagers, my mother told my sister [...]

Moms: Transform Yourself From Frumpy to Fabulous in Minutes!

By: Elizabeth Donovan, M.A.
As moms, we are warriors of daily chicken nugget battles, dirty diaper duty, running tactical night time nursing missions, soldiering on as we run our 10th carpool of the evening, and manning the position as CEO of everything from drool to teenage drama. It’s no wonder that we often lose ourselves in [...]

Luck Won’t Make Your Marriage a Success: Four Benefits of Pre-Marital Counseling

By Sharon M. Rivkin, M.A., M.F.T.

We seem to prepare for everything in our life – jobs, exams, etc. Why then don’t we prepare for a successful marriage? Maybe it’s because of the fairy tales that have brainwashed us into thinking that we’ll all live happily ever after? In reality, it doesn’t work that [...]

Moms – Time to Perk Up your New Year

By: Elizabeth Donovan, M.A.

Out with the old and in with the new…at least that’s the way it’s supposed to be. And what better way to ring in a brand-new-you then by starting with the basics – underwear.
Moms are notorious for putting everyone else first in their lives and skimping on even their most basic [...]

A Perfect Mother is Not an Ideal Mother At All

By: Linda Perlman Gordon and Susan Morris Shaffer.

A daughter often feels her mother as such a powerful presence in her life that it can be difficult for her to see her as an ordinary person with failings, motives and ambitions. Developing a healthy adult relationship requires that both mothers and daughters understand and accept each [...]

When Mothering Becomes Smothering

By: Paula Statman, M.S.S.W.

Are you a strong influence in your daughter’s life? It’s important that you are, but is it possible to have too much influence? If people tell you are over controlling or over protective, it’s time to ask yourself, “Am I mothering or smothering my child?”
Good parents are invested in their [...]

Hey Mom, Need Some Help? How to Get Your Daughters to Pitch-In.

By Annie Fox, M.Ed.

Recently read a cautionary tale from Dear Abby. The letter writer was a martyr… ahem, a mother describing how her two adult daughters arrive for Thanksgiving each year expecting guest-treatment. For some mysterious reason, these “girls” never offer to help their mother with the annual banquet she produces for 20+ people. That [...]

The Bubble Wrap Generation of Kids – A Time Magazine Exclusive

By: Elizabeth Donovan, M.A.

In the early 1990’s a drastic shift occurred in the way we parent our children. Safety no longer was a factor, it was a major factor in every move we made and every baby step our children took. Scrapes became ER visits and playing in the front yard became ‘banished to the [...]

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