Parenting: Is Technology Preventing Two Key Ingredients for Kids’ Relationships?
Selflessness and empathy are two of the most important ingredients for children to develop healthy relationships. Selflessness involves the capacity for children to place the concerns of others appropriately ahead of their own. It allows others to sense that, whatever children do, their interests will be considered. Empathy is the ability for children to understand […]
Read MoreParenting: Are Online Relationships Healthy for Young People?
More and more these days, young people are establishing and maintaining relationships online. These “cyber” relationships often arise because parents, out of fear for their children’s safety, no longer allow them to be “free range” to congregate in local parks, at malls, and on street corners. The only place that they have permission to “meet […]
Read MoreGood Parenting Matters!
This article is a great read that demonstrates that good parenting is really important. Moreover, good parenting can be taught.
Read MoreParenting/Popular Culture/Technology: Are Media Creating a Generation of Narcissists?
The externalization of children’s self-identities caused by the omnipresence of popular culture and social media today, that I discussed in my last post, has resulted in an unhealthy internal focus on the self among young people these days. Do you recall the story of Narcissus? The handsome fellow in Greek mythology who, because of his […]
Read MoreChildren’s Emotional Reactions to Achievement
These days, children seem to be given every opportunity by their parents to achieve success in school, sports, and the performing arts. Children receive private tutoring, coaching, and instruction. They attend summer camps devoted to their achievement activity. They seem to be assured of having every possible skill necessary to achieve success. Except one: emotional […]
Read MoreThree Words for Better Parenting
I have a confession to make: I wrote my first two parenting books before I had children. Is this a great country or what, where you can become an “expert” at something you have never done before (of course, I had worked with families for many years in my practice)? I now have two children […]
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