Making Divorce a Healthier Process
At least half of our nation’s families have been touched by divorce. The high costs and stress on family members of completing the divorce process is legendary, especially if the process involves...
View ArticleEnergizing Your Family’s Fall Season
Does the end of summer have you feeling drained? Many parents look forward to the summer to do things with the children and be free of school and sports schedules. But then by the end of summer they...
View ArticleIncorrigible to Incredible: Some Dog Lessons
Some relationships are more difficult than others. Sometimes a friend or even a child can be difficult to handle. They can try your patience and seem incorrigible. Can we learn some tricks from our...
View ArticleStress – The Missing Diagnosis
If you ask someone if they have any stress, they either roll their eyes saying, “Doesn’t everybody?” or they laugh saying, “Who me?” We all have stressors in our lives, at home, at work, even on our...
View ArticleHelping Kids with School Struggles
When a child struggles to learn, it can snowball into a much bigger problem. Parents worry about behavior in school, social skills, math, reading, and writing problems, organizational challenges, how...
View ArticleNatural Ways to Help Prevent Cardio Problems
Today people are still dying of cardiovascular problems after almost a century of research. Predictors include elevated blood pressure, cholesterol, and tryglycerides, so pharmaceutical companies have...
View ArticleRadical Unschooling
We hear a lot about how our educational systems are flawed and are both failing our kids and stressing our economy at the local, state, and federal levels. It may be that we have demanded far too much...
View ArticleRecovering from Emotional Neglect
As a society we are concerned about the trauma of childhood abuse or spousal abuse witnessed by children, about bullying, and about parental neglect, when kids are left on their own with little...
View ArticleDealing with Parental Anger
When parents are angry and frustrated, and feel they can’t take any more from their kids, they usually either blow their stack and then regret it later, or try to control themselves by holding it all...
View ArticleDrug-Free Help for ADHD
More and more kids are being identified as having attention deficits. Often it is assumed that ADHD is a biological imbalance which requires medication to control. But drugs don’t solve the core...
View ArticleEnding the Special Ed Stigma
How can a parent or teacher communicate to a child who has been identified as having learning differences or needing special education that they are still okay and have a great future ahead of them?...
View ArticlePreventing Colds and Flu
What happens around holiday time when so many people have cold or flue symptoms? How can you avoid them or limit their effects? Cold and flu are the most common infections that affect Americans....
View ArticleParenting Resolutions for 2013!
Parenting is perhaps the most important activity in all of human existence. And it can be incredibly difficult, worrisome, and exhausting, as well as exhilarating, fulfilling, and joyful. Are there...
View ArticleTalking with Teens
Many parents feel anxious as their children approach the teenage years. Parents worry about peer pressure, losing their influence, being able to communicate effectively with their teens, wondering if...
View ArticleEating Your Way to Better Sex
You can’t watch TV long without seeing an ad for a drug for enhancing sexual function. Sexual dysfunction is on the increase, but it’s not because we are all getting older or we need more drugs....
View ArticleWhy Powerful Men Risk It All
Why would powerful men like General David Petraeus cheat and risk so much? We are often puzzled when famous men who seem to have it all, like public acclaim, professional success, and a loving family,...
View ArticleUnschooling and How Children Learn Best
You hear so often about children stressed by school, not doing well, or overwhelmed by expectations from parents, teachers, and themselves. Even young children are having reading difficulties, are...
View ArticleForgiveness in the Family: When and How?
All over the media we see evidence of family feuds, conflicts between celebrities and their parents and between celebrities and their children and between jealous siblings, and of course the...
View ArticleOvercoming Eating Issues and Lifestyle Blocks to Good Life!
Not a day goes by that we don’t hear about a celebrity with a weight problem, problems of our children becoming obese, our couch potato lifestyles, the increasing prevalence and dangers of low...
View ArticleCreative Tips for Finding Life Balance!
How often do we hear about the challenges modern families face with both parents working outside the home and still trying to maintain a close-knit and happy family life? Finding a balance between your...
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