10 Confidence Boosting Strategies for Parents & Their Kids

10 Confidence Boosting Strategies for Parents & Their Kids

I am faced with patients who are thoughtful, caring, intelligent, attractive, and with many other positive characteristics. The challenge is that they don’t see it in themselves. The picture they paint and express is so counter to who I see before me. I’m aware about...
Parents, Cyber-Sex, and Children

Parents, Cyber-Sex, and Children

A father forgot to log out of the family PC and his 13-year-old daughter mistakenly found pornography under his username. A 17-year-old’s camera was broken on her phone, so she took a picture and texted it to her father to check out the picture quality. She shockingly...
Mastering Relationships: Teach People How to Treat You

Mastering Relationships: Teach People How to Treat You

In my personal life and in my practice, I run up against relationships that are thwarted because of a negative or difficult interaction that ensues. It necessitates teaching people how to treat us in order to facilitate our needs being met. I observe that we generally...
Enough Debating: Let’s End This Mass School Shooting Epidemic

Enough Debating: Let’s End This Mass School Shooting Epidemic

This shooting hit too close for home for me. My son’s friend was in the classroom next door. Just the thought of it terrifies and saddens me for her and everyone else who is affected by this tragedy. As I broached the subject with my 14-year-old son to assess how he...