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Parenting

How Getting A Dog Improved My Life

April 22, 2011

As I sit here writing this morning’s blog my dog is lying across my feet sleeping. Just a minute ago he was standing between me and a stranger that had come to the door. He is by NO MEANS a security or protection dog but every now and then he pretends and I like it. [...]

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Fight Fair!

February 9, 2010

Fight Fair!
The first relationship that child ever sees is the one their parents have — for better and for worse, that’s it for a very, very long time (at least from a romantic liason point of view). What we teach them when we interact with our partners is how to interact — kids are more [...]

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When The Kids Leave For College…

September 2, 2009

Years ago a woman wrote a personal column in the New York Times about parents and sleep-away camp. I remember laughing so hard my belly hurt. At least 15 years later, I still remember it. She described the two types of parents she had come to know through her  experiences as a parent of a [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day

May 10, 2009

This morning as I was waking up my thoughts turned to my years as a mother–all 28 of them. In years past, our nuclear family would gather around the family room or kitchen, cards and gifts would be exchanged.  After our private ceremony, we would usually make our way to one family or another’s house [...]

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Teens and Change

April 29, 2009

Have you ever had the experience of complimenting your adolescent or teen-ager on a noticeable change in them (for the better) and they deny that they’ve changed? Sometimes I make the mistake of listing all the changes that an adolescent or teen in my counseling practice has been made. Inevitable he or she will look [...]

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Children and Depression

April 22, 2009

Are kids more depressed now than they once were? Or are we more aware now than we once were?
According to David G. Fassler, M.D., a Board Certified child and adolescent psychiatrist practicing in Burlington, VT. – the answer is both. The statistics are scary -Dr. Fassler states that suicide is is the second leading cause [...]

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