Everybody worries about a chubby child. Thin parents and overweight parents, especially those who suffered from fat-kid syndrome themselves. Even Michelle Obama weighs in on this topic. Yet nobody knows what to do about it, except make September a National… Continue Reading
In his book, Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls, Robert Burney writes that “there are four basic roles that children adopt in order to survive growing up in emotionally dishonest, shame-based, dysfunctional family systems.” The children take these roles because… Continue Reading
Remember the wondrously insane and macabre Addams family? (“They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky/They’re all together ooky. . . .”) They were the anti-Partridge family, the inverse Brady Bunch, fabulously perverse, with two ghastly children, Wednesday (as in… Continue Reading
As Mario Puzo informed us–and he ought to know–“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.” So far, so good. But loyalty to, precisely, which part of the family and… Continue Reading
Over a year ago I posted several blogs on helping to launch your young adults who haven’t yet found work, job, insurance, or significant other. See “Fixing We’ll Just Fix It For You: Letting Your Children be Adults: the Two… Continue Reading
