“Parenting today is a wildly challenging, confusing job, far beyond anything most of us expected.” -Ron Taffel, Ph.D. This is how family therapist and child-rearing expert, Ron Taffel, begins his most recent book for parents, Childhood Unbound: Saving Our Kids’ Best Selves–Confident Parenting in a World of Change. What I love most about this […]
Getting Closer to Your Kids One Meal at a Time
“Basically, everything a parent worries about can be improved by the simple act of sitting down and sharing a meal.” – Laurie David, producer and author There are several up-to-date resources for parents wanting to know more about both the why’s […]
Emotional Self-Healing for Couples and Families
“Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we’d rather collapse and back away. They’re like messengers that show us, with […]
Improving Family Communication
Effective communication is one of the cornerstones of relationship. It is the means by which we form connections with others, work out inevitable conflicts that arise, make plans for the future, collaborate on a project, or achieve greater intimacy. It can be far more difficult than any of us first imagined. After all, we’ve been […]
Family Communications & Effective Conversations
Countless people suffer from social anxiety. Some people get uncomfortable speaking to strangers, while others are comfortable with small talk but are overwhelmed when having more emotional or intimate conversations. If you, or someone you love, struggles with finding and maintaining relationships, and you think that communication may be at the root, Alan Garner’s book, Conversationally Speaking: […]
Learning to Become Happier as a Family
A wonderful book and on-line resource for parents and non-parents alike is called The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin. The so-called project that Rubin undertook was to see if and how she […]
