Parenting Adolescents'
Are mothers helpful or harmful to sons?
Though supportive, loving and attentive parental treatment of both boys and girls has been documented to be the source of healthy maturation, some still view a close attachment between a mother and her son with skepticism. [...]
The empty nest syndrome – a “downer” or an “upper”?
The Empty Nest Syndrome, coined in the 1970’s, as “the feeling of depression experienced by some parents after their children have left home” may be challenging to endure. How can you manage this loss as you [...]
Managing disapproval of your teenager’s relationship
Some parents are uncomfortable with their teenager’s dating choice. Yet, they are aware that their opinion may not be well received or heeded. How can parents still guide their children without being disregarded or alienated by [...]
How to best talk to your teenagers
Most parents of adolescents are bewildered about how to deal with their teenagers. The way parents try to reason with their youngsters is usually ineffective and frustrating. Yet, there are ways to talk to your adolescent [...]
How to help teenagers and young adult children toward self-sufficiency
All parents want to provide their children with the best life possible as they guide them toward a self-sufficient, autonomous existence. Regrettably, many very good parents, in their attempt to facilitate their children’s lives, end up [...]
Worried about your teenager’s social networking?
The format of social networking in which an online user creates a personal profile and offers his/her availability for friendship has become a phenomenon that has captivated hundreds of millions participants. Many parents are concerned about [...]
How healthy parents can help other families’ teenagers
Being raised in a healthy, loving and low-conflict family is ideal for children. Youngsters, who are not privileged to be a part of this type of family, may not be aware of the risks to their [...]
The tragedy of an adolescent’s suicide
The loss of life at any age is traumatic enough. Suicide of a teenager is a deep loss to the family and society and evokes great pain and bewilderment for all. A self- inflicted volitional termination [...]
Parents: Chill out about some of your teenager’s annoying habits
Many parents are up in arms about some of their teenager’s habits. The youngster sleeps at odd hours, eats peculiarly, tunes out with his/her music, is incessantly on the computer, texting or talking on the phone [...]
Be an involved father to your daughter
The relationship between fathers and their young daughters is often very close, special and rewarding. However, when the daughters reach pre-adolescence, a common shift often occurs toward greater distance and even some estrangement between them. Though [...]
Monitoring your adolescent’s behavior
Raising children is a wonderful and challenging task, raising adolescents can be especially daunting. These ‘adult-like’ young people are not adults yet and do require monitoring, which they often resist, claiming the right to privacy and [...]
Are ‘Helicopter Parents’ helpful or harmful to their children?
All parents want to provide their children with the best care and facilitate their lives to the highest degree possible. These good intentions are sometimes so intense that they cease to be helpful and become intrusive [...]
Should students be taught about love relationships?
Couple therapists often see partners in relationship distress, who feel ill equipped to understand each other or relate well and lament about not having been taught the proper skills. They believe that early interactive lessons about [...]
How to help teenagers feel more secure
Adolescence is often a hard time for youngsters and their parents. The time of teenagers’ self-definition and the establishment of their identity is also a time of being overwhelmed and bewildered by their parents. There are, [...]
How to help teens with the death of a peer.
Adolescence is a difficult time for most teens. It is a time of physical growth and development, change and self-definition. This is a period of great emotional stress, as the young people transition to adulthood. When [...]
When the first child leaves home
When the first child leaves home So your first child is heading for college? What a wonderful and exciting event it is for you and your child. As you congratulate him or her for this success, [...]
How to gain the respect of your teenagers
How to gain the respect of your teenagers Parents often watch with dismay the drastic change in their children’s attitude towards them, as they become adolescents. The once close, respectful, loving and receptive children suddenly become [...]
Should parents be their teen-agers’ best friends?
Should parents be their teen-agers’ best friends? Some adolescents state with pride that their parents are their best friends. It may then be assumed that these parents have succeeded in their role. Actually, being our teens’ [...]
The truth about what teen girls think about sex
The truth about what teen girls think about sex Do you know what your daughter may be doing on her way to school, on the bus, around the lockers in broad daylight? Parents of twelve-year-old girls [...]
