I won’t grow up/I don’t want to wear a tie/And a serious expression/In the middle of July./And if it means I must prepare/To shoulder burdens with a worried air,/I’ll never grow up/never grow up, never grow up/Not me/Not I/Not me!/So… Continue Reading
Let’s start with: Lessons for Parenting Your Own Children When You Remarry. 1. Work to reduce your children’s feelings of loss as they share you with your new partner–and perhaps other childen. Work to do this by continuing to spend… Continue Reading
In the last post I addressed how children accomplish the developmental tasks of adolescence by attaching to friends. A final component of this development is allowing your teen to learn by making his/her own mistakes. This is a painful one… Continue Reading
So, as we spoke about in my last post, separating from parents is a crucial task for the adolescent. But such separation can leave a teen feeling stranded and unmoored. So at the same time as this is going on,… 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
If I had to pick a country to win the highly competitive ‘Unusual Connection to Its Own Ancient Language Award’ [a highly prestigious award, as I’m sure you’re all aware], hands down it would be Israel. [I would have voted for the… Continue Reading
If I had to pick my ‘top 3 favorite’ social science experiments, it’d really be no contest. [Now, if you’re in awe of my mastery of the field of social science, you’ve forgotten an important point that I perhaps haven’t… Continue Reading
My friend Evelyn has potential to be a terminally tedious grandparent. She talks about her grandkids as if we–meaning the world–are merely fortunate that these children have chosen to grace us with their presence. I try to act appropriately grateful. … Continue Reading
