Social media has exploded over the past decade and has become an essential way of staying informed and connected to others on a global level. Many of your friends, family members, and business contacts thrive within this platform due to its accessibility and range to reach others. Facebook’s statistics alone show 12% of our global population are users.
The Growing Parent: Trauma in the Media (Part 5)
As your child sees trauma in the media, stories of events that might make them scared, it’s important not to get too detailed when you talk about it.
Pro Athletes’ Kids: Price of Privilege
It is often the case that a pro athlete’s kids are afforded special opportunities, luxuries, and privileges as a result of their father’s (or mother’s) enormous salaries. This may include having most of their material desires met, attending the most expensive schools, and traveling and participating in other activities without limit. This affluent lifestyle may come at a price for a pro athlete’s kids.
Eating Disorder Recovery: How to Support Your Loved One
Eating disorder recovery doesn’t only affect the person with the eating disorder. If you have a friend or family member with an eating disorder, you know how hard it can be to help them through it. If your loved one is in therapy and/or working with a nutritionist and trying to make changes in their eating habits, it can be difficult not to jump in with advice or guidance. This is especially difficult when it is so easy for you to see the proper solutions for them.
The Growing Parent: Helping Our Kids Cope with Fear
“I don’t understand why my son is afraid of that. I’ve tried everything I can think of, and I just end up being frustrated trying to help, which leaves us both more upset…”
Understanding Your Teen: Privilege Problems
Q: Can teens of caring parents with most needs & wants met and plenty of opportunities at their disposal experience unhappiness, disconnection, and mental illness?
A: In short, absolutely YES. And actually, according to recent studies, they appear to have a higher risk of experiencing these symptoms.
Understanding Your Teen: Depression
Is my teen just a “normal, moody” kid experiencing the roller coaster of their changing bodies and a desire to fit in and belong? Or is it depression?
This is just one of the many ways find it difficult to understand their teens these days. It’s important to pay careful attention to your teen’s behavior. Even if they won’t talk to you, their actions might just tell you what’s going on.
Understanding Your Teen
We’ve all been one. Some of us entered into young adulthood with more or less scars then others. But usually words that come to us when we think about the teenage years include awkward, identity, changes, and confusion. Thinking about middle school and high school can trigger memories of the crowded hallways, lunchroom decisions, peer-pressure, first relationships, and experimentation. Most of us are thankful we survived. So it’s not surprising that when parents experience their children entering this phase of life, they feel a little helpless. We find ourselves feeling confused all over again.
The Growing Parent: Trauma in the Media (Part 3)
The fact is, children are going to get the information they are looking for one way or another, whether from their peers, television programs, the internet, and so forth. Unfortunately, often times the information they find is erroneous. False information can be problematic for a variety of reasons and can lead our children down paths we don’t even want to fathom. As parents we have the opportunity to give our children accurate and healthy information, in turn giving them a better foundation.
The Growing Parent: Trauma in the Media (Part 1)
“With all the violence and natural disasters and other trauma in the media today, my children are constantly afraid. How can I talk to them about these things and help to ease some of their anxieties?”
