Apr 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
Changing how you think about stress can make you healthier.In her TED Talk, Kelly McGonigal states that when you change how you feel about stress, you actually change your body’s response to it. Reframing stress as something that is not harmful has a...
Mar 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
We can’t access empathy when we refuse to allow ourselves to feel vulnerable. Watch Brene Brown talk about vulnerability. Well worth five...
Mar 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
I’ve created a Facebook Page to post informative and interesting articles on parenting. Please click on Parenting Roadmaps and click LIKE to have access to all the current articles. I’m promoting, with my co-author Susan Shaffer, our newest book which...
Mar 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
It’s official. The publications date of our new book on iTeens is May 15. How to Connect with Your iTeen: Susan Morris Shaffer and Linda Perlman Gordon Bullying, gangs, social media, smartphones, reality TV . . .The hands-on guide you...
Mar 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
According to David Finkelhor at the Crimes Against Children’s Research Center, abductions by strangers are down 51% since 1997 yet only 13% of school aged children walk or bike to school compared to 48% in 1969. Childhood is now a danger free zone, with...
Dec 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
The concrete physical health benefits of mediation and mindfulness are being studied by many scientists. Carolyn Gregoire reported the findings of a study completed in Sweden in The Huffington Post. It included over 200...
Nov 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
In his article for the New York Times, Dr. Richard Friedman cautions parents to refrain from squashing the enthusiasm, creativity and curiosity of children identified with ADHD. New research has found that ADHD kids as well as adults are hard-wired to seek...
Sep 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
Many of us know about the marshmallow test, the famous test invented 50 years ago to identify which children had self control. Five-year-olds were given a marshmallow and told that if they could resist eating it for 15 minutes, they could get 2 marshmallows...
Sep 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
Most parents struggle with the boundaries around screen time for their children, usually because they struggle with it themselves. Jordan Shapiro writes about the confusion in his article, The Truth About Parenting And Smartphones, for Forbes...
Jul 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
The term “Emotional Intelligence” became widely-known with the publication of Dr. Daniel Goleman’s book, Emotional Intelligence – Why it can matter more than IQ in 1996. Since then it has had a meteoric rise in importance...
Jun 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
I first wrote about this phenomena in 2004. In fact my co-author and I were the first ones to publish a book on this subject, titled, Mom, Can I Move Back in With You? A guidebook for parents of twenty somethings. It’s now available for the Kindle.The topic...
Jun 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
The first reason to try therapy is to learn the skills to help us become more sufficient at helping ourselves.Emotions are felt in our body and brain and when we don’t have the ability to know the difference between anger, sadness, frustration,...
