Moving Music
I love music. I have it everywhere. This song was shared with me recently. As a father…well let's just say it brought me to tears.
The opposite of a ‘Tiger Mother’: leaving your children behind – Parenting on Shine
"I have been a mother since I was 20," she points out. "I did not have the life a normal 20 year old would have. While I don't regret that, I knew that I now have the opportunity to reconnect with who I might have been then, but with all the tools and skill sets…
Your Spouse Should Be More Important Than The Kids
A truth of relationships that is often overlooked and pushed back against is the truth that your spouse should be more important to you than your children. In fact, nothing on this earth should be more important than your spouse. I know this goes against our cultural values but let's be honest, our cultural values…
Parenting: Give Your Kids Everything They Ever Want…
Inconsistent messages tear at the fabric of any connection we have with our children.
Books | Children | Depression
Lessons from College | Psychology Today
"Many students lack acceptance of internal events like sadness, anger and anxiety," says Jacqueline Pistorello, Ph.D., of the University of Nevada at Reno. She sees such widespread problem behaviors as drinking and self-cutting as attempts by students to dissipate sadness and anxiety. College mental health directors report that the last four years has seen a…
Lessons from College | Psychology Today I Why are kids so depressed?
The overriding reason for the surge in serious problems on campus is that college is the age of depression. Depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety and other serious mental conditions first rear their head in late adolescence. Also, colleges are harvesting the first crop of kids who grew up on Prozac and other new-wave antidepressants. The drugs…
10 Things Your Teenager Won’t Tell You – Parenting on Shine
Wonder what’s bugging your teen? It’s hard to be certain when all your son does is grunt and your daughter won’t stop rolling her eyes. So rather than pressing our own kids to talk—not going to happen!—we asked teenagers from around the country what messages they wish they could share with their moms and dads….
Points to Ponder (100 Words or Less): Co-Sleeping Edition
In China where cosleeping (young children sleeping with their parents), SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) is so rare that they don't even have a word for it. (24)
Interviewed by our Local News Station, Wood T.V. 8
Here is an interview I was able to give to a local news station regarding the impact of sexual assaults on students.
Failure is impossible for high school students! (No, really) on Shine
So is this an inspired move to get those marginal students on track and learning, or just another way in which we’re coddling underachieving kids and hobbling the rest? Parents, educators and students are divided. Mary Mathewson, an English teacher at Potomac High tells the Post that the new standard not only cripples teachers in…