When “Sheila” picked up her kids from summer day camp, two staffers crowded around her and anxiously told of how her 7 year-old son “Jake” had been teased almost to tears by two 10 year-old girls on a camp field trip.
Sheila’s first reaction was anger. How dare two older kids gang up […]

A family where the primary focus is on the children creates its own worst nightmare. At what point did society buy Freud’s paradigm that more attention to our kids will produce healthier adults? Where’s the evidence for that? We take this idea so for granted that we no longer even QUESTION that […]

As an Episcopal minister, people confide in me and offer a rare view of what goes on “behind the scenes” in families. I share in the thrill of weddings, and of children born to happy parents. I also witness the crushing agony of divorce, custody battles, and children in crisis. I observe […]

Why are emotional and health problems on the rise in our children today? For example, the May issue of “Time” magazine noted that the incidence of autism and related disorders in American families used to be about 1 in 10,000. Today, it’s 1 in 150. Some say we’ve simply gotten better at […]