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“Why Do I Apologize for My Children When They Act Like Kids in Public?”
How We React To Our Kids in Public ?- Give Them a Break! The other day I was visiting a preschool and talking with a parent whose adorable six-year-old was wearing a pirate mask and carrying a play sword. He came up to me to me and said, “I’m scaring you!” I said “Oh-h-h. I’m…
Read MoreA Successful Working Mother Battles Bi-Polar Disorder
Sucessful Working Mothers How do women measure success? Is it by mothering and having a career? How do they carry out both forms of work to their satisfaction? What helps? What hurts? This is a weekly series about successful women who participate in the workforce in a range of ways building their careers while mothering.…
Read MoreShould You Post About Your Kids on the Internet?
Do Kids Want Us to Post About Them on the Internet? When your kid gets under your skin or make you feel really proud, should you be writing about it on the internet? Do our kids have a say in how we expose them to the world? Even the cutest baby picture, who’s to say…
Read More20 Ways Not to Talk to Your Teenage Daughter – Then How to Fix Things
Oh Our Teenage Daughters!! Teenage girls are sensitive to the way people in authority talk to them, especially their mothers. They are easily wounded, feel criticized, and vulnerable when they sense or get outright disapproval. However, even the most devoted mothers are only trying to shape them up to be young women and don’t understand…
Read MoreTen Reasons Not to Call Your Child Shy
Unlocking Parental Intelligence: Finding Meaning in Your Child’s Behavior on sale now at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Familius and wherever books are found. Calling Your Child Shy Parenting the socially uneasy child is more complicated than labeling your child as shy. It may just be your child’s temperament or natural style to avoid over-stimulating, gregarious…
Read MoreJuicy January Hints for Listening to Kids and Having Them Listen to You
Listening to Kids It’s a new year and time for building new relationships with kids. How do we listen to them and get to know them better, so we’re really there for them when they need us? I always remember that feeling, “Am I really listening or is my mind on something else as well?”…
Read MoreThe New Year Bonanza in Parenting Books: Unlocking Parental Intelligence
Why do Children Do What they Do? What’s on Their Minds? How Can Parents Know their Child’s Inner World? Unlocking Parental Intelligence lifts the curtain on these questions by helping parents become “meaningmakers” who understand the significance behind their kids’ behaviors. Experienced psychoanalyst Laurie Hollman, Ph.D., reveals five enlightening steps to help parents solve problems…
Read MoreMy 14 New Year’s Resolutions using Parental Intelligence
1. When I face puzzling behaviors, I promise not to react immediately but Step Back, take my time calmly, and survey the situation. 2. I will become a “Meaning-Maker” which means I will take my time to understand the meaning behind a misbehavior. Only then will I know what to do. 3. I promise to…
Read MoreGive Kids a Break! Don’t Make Them Choose Between Naughty-or-Nice.
Give a Holiday Gift of a book that Benefits Parents and Kids: UNLOCKING PARENTAL INTELLIGENCE: FINDING MEANING IN YOUR CHILD’S BEHAVIOR found on amazon, barnes & noble, familius and wherever books are sold. NAUGHTY-OR-NICE? Do you think we over do it when we challenge or even threaten our kids to be bad…
Read MoreThe Spontaneous Mother – Creating a Novel Experience
Hollman, PhD, has a new book available for holiday gift giving. In fact, give it as a gift to yourself: UNLOCKING PARENTAL INTELLIGENCE: FINDING MEANING IN YOUR CHILD Click on amazon and enjoy it! We’ve all experienced that awful feeling of fear, surprise, or incomprehension when our kids do something unusual, unimaginable, or outright distressing.…
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