Transitioning to Middle School

Parenting Tips on Helping Your Child Transition to Middle School Transitioning from Elementary School to Middle School is a great challenge for many kids. The expectations of meeting new kids from other schools, having more serious school work, and meeting different teachers are part of the concerns. Then there is just negotiating the new landscape.…

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Late Stages of Teenage Development

A Parents Guide to Understanding Late Stages of Teenage Development – What Parents Need to Know About  Late Stages of Teenage Life 1. Thinking About the Future As the last stage in child development, teenagers need to think about their future academically, socially, and in the work place. This is a time to help them…

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Parents Need to Be Present When it Matters

  The Available Parent Parents need to be present when it matters for their kids – crisis times such as down days, difficult exams, relationship breakdowns, changes in family dynamics and important transition times. How do you know what stresses them out? How do you make it clear that you are available anytime your child…

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How Do You Understand Why Kids Don’t Listen

When Kids Don’t Listen Don’t you wonder why kids don’t listen? You try your best but you have those days when your kids seem indifferent to you? No matter what you say or how you say it, it feels like it falls on deaf ears. It’s frustrating and annoying and pretty hard to tolerate, so…

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Why Do Parents Worry?

Laurie Hollman, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst whose book, Unlocking Parental Intelligence: Finding Meaning in Your Child’s Behavior, is found on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Familius, and wherever books are sold. Parents Worry  is Ever Present! Child development experts have believed for many decades that when a mother does the worrying, children are able to take…

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Ten 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…

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Unlocking Parental Intelligence – When Babies Feel Heard

Laurie Hollman, Ph.D. has an upcoming book, Unlocking Parental Intelligence: Finding Meaning in Your Child’s Behavior, to be released Oct. 13. Pre-sale discount on Amazon right now. Parental Intelligence is characterized by understanding babies’ minds. From birth, needs, wishes, and intentions of babies are expressed in sounds and body movements. Actually, even in utero, the…

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