Help Your Child Make Friends
Making friends can be tough for kids. Dr. Robyn Silverman gives gentle and clear steps on how to help our kids take the first steps towards friendship.
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Hitting, Kicking, Biting, and Hair Pulling
You’re at a play date, and the next thing you know your child has launched a fist into the back of his pal. What now? Author and Parent Educator, Elizabeth Pantley, is here with answers on what to do to help curb childhood aggression.
How Parental Worry Affects Our Kids
Worry and parenting seem to go hand-in-hand. Dr. Beth Onufrak says it’s the way parents cope with worry, that matters for our kids.
How to Get Your Child to Talk about Their Day
What in the world did your child experience while away today at school or daycare? For ways to elicit that sought after intel, Betsy Brown Braun lists nine effective strategies.
How to Handle Parenting Burnout
Parenting burnout happens to the best of us. Dr. Alan Kazdin of Yale Parenting Center gives frank insight and guidance into the toughest job in town.
How to Handle Sibling Rivalry
How can we nurture sibling love despite sibling rivalry? The estimable Dr. Joshua D. Sparrow, MD, child psychiatrist, helps parents work it all out.
How to Put the Positive in Discipline
Ever find that traditional punishment seems to make behavioral problems worse? Dr. Jane Nelson, MFCC, and author of the famed “Positive Discipline” series, teaches us some disciplinary tactics that work without shame or blame.
How to Stop The Whining
Sometimes we just can’t take it anymore!I We asked (okay, begged) parenting guru Betsy Brown Braun to reveal the secret to get our kids to stop whining. Pleeeeeeeease???
Is Boredom Good For Children?
The next time your child says, “I’m bored”, instead of rushing in with a structured activity or resorting to TV or video games, Dr. Laura Markham explains how letting children find their own way out of boredom is an important way to spark creativity and imagination.
Is Mediocrity Good Enough for Our Kids?
Embrace mediocrity! That’s one of Dr. Wendy Mogel’s mottos. For real? Read on to hear why she says it’s key to living a happy life.