Step-parenting Roles: Navigating the Challenges of Blended Families
Finding your person can feel like a dream come true. Building a life together is often filled with excitement, hope, and love. But when children…
A Survival Guide on Parenting a Teen
Ever struggle to figure out how to get your teen to talk to you? And then when they do talk to you, is it hard…
The Power of Unspoken Family Rules
Have you ever been welcomed into someone else’s family? Perhaps you attended a dinner at your friend’s house, traveled with another family for vacation, or…
Parenting for a Pandemic and Beyond: Using Positive Reinforcement to Help Your Child Make Good Choices
By Zuly Ramirez, LCPC Parenting is a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week job, but typically, children have structured activities to help parents receive support in between. Children have…
Want to be a better parent? Go play tennis.
If there’s one demographic group I most feel for right now, it’s parents of young children: stay-at-home moms, as well as moms and dads trying…
Common Reasons Why Your Reward System at Home Is Not Working
As a parent, you’ve probably tried reward systems and charts to help manage your child’s behavior. And like many parents, you may have had limited…
Parents, We Can’t Be There For Everything
One evening, while sitting in the local park with my children, the ice cream truck slowly drove up, playing that infamous and decidedly repetitive Ice…
My Child Has Anxiety: How Can I Help?
A child or teen who experiences their world with overwhelming, worrisome thoughts can have difficulty with a myriad of tasks: going to school, completing homework,…
Honey, We Broke the Kids: Guiding Children through Divorce
When couples exchange the words “’til death do us part,” that promise doesn’t always stand the test of time. Divorce can happen for any number…
The Best Gift for Your Teen or Adult Child: Admit Your Biggest Mistakes
Parents love to joke about their worst moments in parenting. For example, we laugh about that time that we forgot to strap in the car…
Coping with Family Dysfunction at the Holidays
On the wall of my office where I do counseling I have a sketch that says, “Rules for a Successful Holiday: 1. Get together with…
When You Lose It with Your Kids, the Problem Is Usually Boundaries, Not Anger
In the world of perfection parenting that we’re immersed in, many moms are worried they don’t measure up, a major reason being that they lose…
