Fifth in a Series of Articles on Raising Emotionally Healthy Children
 
Guest Post from The Children’s Project
According to Dr. Newmark, the fifth critical emotional need of children is the need to feel Secure.  Security means creating …

Heroic Abilities Aren’t Exclusive to Comics, Novelist Says
Cynical adults may sneer when they say, “Youth is wasted on the young.” But young world-traveler Ryan Pearson sees a more positive message in George Bernard Shaw’s often …

Why Kids Needs to Feel Important
Second in a Series of Articles on Raising Emotionally Healthy Children
Guest Post from The Children’s Project
Read the first article in this series: Respect
Another critical emotional need of children is to …

A Series of Articles on Raising Emotionally Healthy Children
Guest Post from The Children’s Project
All of us – babies, toddlers, teenagers, parents and grandparents have the same emotional needs.  Meeting these needs in childhood provides the …

“Love in a Nutshell”
by Sedef Orsel
Our daily lives are so fast and so hectic that we have little time to reflect and understand how our actions translate into a chain of events that significantly impact …

Sugar and spice and all that’s nice. That’s what little girls are made of.
by Erica S. Gould

Father-daughter relationships are complicated. One minute she is your little girl in pigtails, following you everywhere. You’re the only …

Tips to minimize or prevent bedwetting
by Tom Jackson, M.D.
When it comes to the problem of children wetting the bed, the consolation for most parents is that most children usually outgrow bedwetting. Sadly, however, this is …

Here is an excerpt from a post titled The New Age of Entitlement by Jim Jackson of ConnectedFamilies.org and I was impressed with the insights around our kids’ sense of entitlement and Jim’s belief and …

Keeping Up Appearances: Helping Young People Develop Healthy—Not Harmful— Attitudes About the Way They Look
by Rhonda Franz
February is National Eating Disorders Awareness Month. According to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), 10 million females are …

by Caron Goode
In a world where violence and bullying seem to be common, some parents are wondering how we help our children be happy and successful. Happy children have good self-esteem, demonstrate resilience, and feel …