Teenagers face a variety of stresses. Whatever the cause, starting down the road to adulthood has its own special challenges.
You can help your teen by learning to recognize the signs of stress and teaching your child healthy ways to deal with it. Read more ›
You may already be familiar with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), a form of talk therapy that research shows to be highly effective for people who experience emotions very intensely. DBT is typically employed through individual therapy sessions combined with group sessions where clients can continue to develop and practice their DBT skills. Read more ›
As a parent, it’s crucial for you to have age-appropriate expectations for tolerating frustration. Children’s abilities develop over time, and younger children are likely to struggle more with frustration than older children. Read more ›
Some children have a gender identity that is different from their gender assigned at birth, and many have interests and hobbies that may align with the other gender. Research suggests that gender is something we are born with; it can’t be changed by any interventions. It is critically important that children feel loved and accepted for who they are. Read more ›
If your child has questions about gender identity or gender expression, you probably have questions too. Find out what you can do to help and support your child. Read more ›
Diane Ehrensaft, PhD, is a developmental and clinical psychologist who coined the term gender creative to describe children whose unique gender expression or sense of identity is not defined by a checkbox on their birth certificate. In her second book, The Gender Creative Child, Ehrensaft guides parents and professionals through the rapidly changing cultural, medical, and legal landscape of gender and identity. Read more ›
Autistic kids spend a lot of time in school learning how to cope with an environment that is often out of sync with their abilities and challenges.
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You think you’ve picked up some clues that your child is questioning their gender, but what’s the next step? Should you approach them? Wait for them to come to you? Read more ›
How many times per day do you check your phone? According to Gloria Mark, psychologist and author of Attention Span, people swipe from screen to screen about 566 times per day, and about half of those switches are self-motivated, meaning they weren’t prompted by a notification. Read more ›
We want our children to make wise, well-reasoned decisions. Our desire to keep them safe drives our need to shape those decisions. How we talk to our tweens and teens can make the difference between whether they absorb our lessons or rebel against them.
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