Healthy Divorce: How to make your split as smooth as possible
No one enters into a marriage expecting it to fail. Still, more than 20 percent of first marriages end in…
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10 Simple Everyday Ways to Improve a Child’s Behavior and Mood
by Angela Pruess MA, LMFT Discover how basic integrative health approaches can be applied daily to improve child behavior, mood, and mental…
Making the most of the holiday season
Stress and holidays seem to go hand-in-hand. Your busy schedule becomes even busier with preparations and celebrations. Even in nonholiday…
Happy Couples: How to Avoid Money Arguments
If you’ve ever bickered with your spouse or partner over money, you’re not alone. Previous studies have shown that financial…
Managing Stress for a Healthy Family
As the nation continues to face high-levels of stress, families are susceptible to mounting pressures from finances and work. Raising…
Talking to Teens. Suicide Prevention
Suicide is a difficult topic, but it’s too important to ignore. Suicide is the second leading cause of death for…
How to talk to children about difficult news
Children’s lives are touched by trauma on a regular basis, no matter how much parents or teachers try to keep…
Strategies for Controlling Your Anger
Wrath, fury, rage – whatever you call it, anger is a powerful emotion. Unfortunately, it’s often an unhelpful one. Anger…
Making Your New Year’s Resolution Stick
Lose weight? Check. Start exercising? Check. Stop smoking? Check. It can be daunting when your list of New Year’s Resolutions…
Dealing With The Pressure Of Gift-Giving
Sales and bargains can be exciting, as Black Friday kicks off another holiday shopping season. But shoppers need to be…
Happiness and Compassion
What do I mean? Compassion is defined as a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken…
20 Epic Life Skills Your Child Learns Through Play
Play is an underestimated but vastly powerful force on your child’s development, read more about the areas of development that are…
A Listening EAR
What if you could transform your stressful relationships almost instantly? You could if you listen with EAR. What do I…
Top 10 Things Your Children Need from You
As much as we might wish for a parenting manual, with exact instructions based on proven scientific methodology, the truth…
Setting Limits: How to Say Yes to Yourself and No to Others
Read any magazine article or book about parenting and the author will advise the necessity of setting limits for children.…
Blended Families
All relationships have their complications, but step-families create a web of relationships and inter-relationships that make the average spider’s overnight…
Growing Yourself as a Parent
“Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to…
Creating What You Want In Life
We all wish to live the life we really want. If that’s the case, why does it seem that so…