“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.” -C. S. Lewis A family arrived in my counseling office for their first session. Dad looked nervous, Mom looked relieved and the two teenage kids looked like they had just walked into a morgue. Both parents complained of being driven crazy by the constant […]
The Come Here and Go Away Blues of Parenting Teens
One of my favorite books describing the inevitable conflict that parents have with teenagers is Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall?: A Parent’s Guide to the New Teenager, written by Dr. Anthony Wolf, a clinical psychologist. First published in 1992, the book is now in […]
