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Laurie Hollman, Ph.D.

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Parenting Kids with Overt and Covert Anxiety

December 9, 2018 by Laurie Hollman, Ph.D. Leave a Comment

Parenting kids with overt and covert anxiety using Parental Intelligence will ease their minds.Kids show their anxiety in overt and covert ways. For some it is obvious. They are nervous, panicky, fearful, obsessive, phobic, and socially awkward. But others show anxiety indirectly masked behind unusual irritability, frustration, annoyance, and even anger that seems out of control. The latter are kids who have trouble verbalizing their anxiety and they can be harder to reach.

Helping the Overt Anxious Child with Parental Intelligence

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When Fathers Clash with Teenage Sons, Where Do Moms Fit In? Or, Don’t They?

November 19, 2016 by Laurie Hollman, Ph.D. Leave a Comment

Fathers Clash with their Teenage Sons:

What are the Options? Should Mothers Help?

What is there to do when Fathers clash with their teenage sons? During adolescence boys are searching for their identity, focused outside the family on friends and school and wanting more say in the rules they live by at home. Curfews, technology usage, choice of friends, dating, sexual practices, alcohol and drug use are all open questions. The commonplace expectation that teenage boys always rebel is not necessarily true especially when there have been good father – son relationships during the earlier years. Then collaboration about rules and wise guidance are accepted by boys because they know they come with good care and love.

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