TELESEMINAR SERIES FOR COUPLES AND PARENTS OF YOUNG CHILDREN AND TEENS
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What Creates Happiness Among the Youth? Surprising New Research
According to a recent survey by the Associated Press and MTV, what makes young people the most happy is spending time with family. The open-ended questionnaire on the nature of happiness drew that response from one in five respondents of 1,280 people, ages 13 through 24. Spending time with friends scored next on the happiness [...]
How do we deal with different parenting styles?
Make sure you talk with your spouse about core values that you would like to bestow to your child. Talk through disagreements and find solutions to any oppositions who may have in regards to the issue.
My Husband Won’t Help around the house
Dr. Coleman,
I am the mother of two young girls. My husband and I both have full time jobs but he can pretty much dictate his schedule both during the day and especially his side jobs. I, on the other hand, have to work 8:30-5:00. I’m tired. I take the girls to my mom’s before work. [...]
Set Limits or Let it Ride?
My husband and I have an ongoing discussion about limit setting. He feels like I’m too loose with our kids and I feel like he’s too strict. What’s the balance?
Sincerely,
Dear Reader , How to discipline is a question that most parents are struggling with these days. How strict is “too strict?” Are children [...]
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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 [...]
Seven Common Mistakes of Parenting Adult Children
In the past 100 years we have gone from seeing children as robust and benefiting from the rigors of life to seeing them as fragile and in need of protection. In addition, while parents in the early 20th century wanted their children to conform, respect the parents’ authority, and to fear them, today’s parents want [...]
Married with Twins
QUESTION:
My husband and I are in the first year of having twins and feel like we’re drowning. We had a great marriage before twins, but now we’re at each other’s throats! Help! I want my old marriage back.
ANSWER:
Twins are hard on a marriage, there’s no doubt. It gets better with time, but there [...]
Dr. Coleman on SESAME STREET Families Stand Together: Feeling Secure in Tough Times