Posts Tagged ‘anxiety’
Anxiety Reactions of Adults and Children in Today’s Political Climate
Anxiety Reactions of Adults and Children in Today’s Political Climate Need to Be Recognized I am a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. After practicing for three decades with children, teens, and adults I have found today’s political climate is feeling threatening to many people I treat. While many children and adults…
Read MoreTransitioning 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.…
Read MoreLate 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…
Read MoreParents 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…
Read MoreHow 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…
Read MoreWhy 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…
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 MoreUnlocking 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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