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Author Archives: Dr. Joshua Coleman
Making Amends to your Grown Child: Why You Need To
As a psychologist, I am privy to the gaping distance of understanding that so many parents feel with their adult children. Many of these parents are in enormous pain. In some cases, their children have cut off contact with them for years, while others for only a few months. Some for obvious crimes of parenting [...]
How Do We Have a Fair Fight?
There are several steps to keep in mind when fighting fair. It is important to explain your point of view to your partner in a calm and respectful way in order to keep the argument civilized.
Lindsey, Paris and Britney: It’s All Your Mother’s Fault! Huffington Post
Jamie Lee Curtis recently wrote in the Huffington Post that the problems with Paris, and, presumably, Britney and Lindsay, can be explained by bad mothering. According to the numerous posts about her article, most people found her analysis spot on. I could see why: Paris’s mother laughed at the judge when he handed down her [...]
What if I think I married the wrong person?
With our divorce-happy culture, it is easy to give in to the belief that you have married the wrong person. Do not rush into a separation. Instead, go to personal counseling, go to couples counseling. Make an effort to save your marriage.
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Stepchildren Who Resent Their Stepparents
Though it is very important for your children to see you forming new, healthy relationships with the ones around you, it is also important that they get to spend time with you as their parent. Sometimes step fathers or step mothers are so worried about bonding with their new step children that they sometimes neglect [...]
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When Mom Moves In
Making it Work!
Talk about everybody’s expectations before she moves in around the following topics:
Childcare
Housework
Money
Time together
Time apart
Parents get the final say about how the kids are raised
Don’t be the go-between your mother and your spouse. Encourage direct communication
Don’t let resentments build up
Don’t process every gripe that you have. Let some of the little things go
Adult [...]
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Kids Can Ruin Marriage: Top 5 Things You Need to Know: Huffington Post
Here’s a potentially depressing fact: for many couples, marital satisfaction takes a huge plunge when they become parents and their marriages don’t reach pre-child levels of satisfaction until the kids are teens or go off to college. Yikes! Isn’t there something couples can do? Yes, and the studies show that when couples do these things, [...]
Gendor Vendors, SF Chronicle
Technology that will allow us to select the sex of our babies is just within reach.
But should it be?
Pink or blue?
Which color to paint the nursery used to be the big decision parents-to-be had to make regarding their baby’s gender. Now, technology not only allows parents-in-waiting to know their baby’s gender, procedures that will let [...]
Fighting and Biting
Ah summer morning… the robins and finches twittering in the elms, the smell of coffee brewing in the kitchen, warm breeze coming through the screen door and the sound of my twin boys trying to kill each other in the living room.
“You idiot!”
“Get off me! Urggh, get off me!!”
“Da-uh-ad!! He kicked me!!”
“Well, he spit on [...]
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Set Limits or Let it Ride?