Archive for July, 2006
How To Deal With Mean People |
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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. |
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Does Your Child Have Problems? Take a Look at Your Marriage… |
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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 [...] |
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The New York Times’ Judith Warner Tells It Like It Is For Parents |
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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 [...] |
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To Raise Great Kids, Focus on your Marriage |
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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 [...] |
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Kids pick up on everything, and research shows that children can "catch" their parents' stress just like they catch a virus—soaking up the stress that pervades a household until their developing nervous systems reach "overload." Then kids act-out, or get sick.
