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Waah! Why Kids Have a Lot to Cry About
Evolution of family and the postmodern notion of parenting.
Reprinted courtesy Psychology Today
Mommy, the five-year-old girl asked her mother, “why don’t you get divorced again?” Her thrice-married mother was taken aback and said in return, “Honey, why in the world should I do that?” To which her daughter replied “Well, I haven’t seen you in love for such a long time.”
This young girl perceives family life and the adult world in a very different way than did her counterpart less than half a century ago. Likewise, the mother perceives her daughter quite differently than did a mother raising a child in the 1940s. Although this mother was surprised at her daughter’s question, she was not surprised at her understanding of divorce, nor at her familiarity with the symptoms of romance. Read More »
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Moving On
The effect of breakup
on the kids’ own relationships
hinges on the parent-child bond
Reprinted courtesy Pscyhology Today
Laurie Purcell’s eight-year marriage ended because she was in love with the wrong man for the wrong reasons. Read More »
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How to Manage Your Kids
Reprinted courtesy Psychology Today
How child raising has always been the most important activity
of the human animal, male or female.
The importance of hands-on fathering.
Why the American culture needs more parents, not more babies.
What parents cannot expect from their children.
The Ten Commandements of parenting
21 tricks for taming children.
21 tricks for taming adolescents. Read More »
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Waah! Why Kids Have a Lot to Cry About
Evolution of family and the postmodern notion of parenting.
Reprinted courtesy Psychology Today
Mommy, the five-year-old girl asked her mother, “why don’t you get divorced again?” Her thrice-married mother was taken aback and said in return, “Honey, why in the world should I do that?” To which her daughter replied “Well, I haven’t seen you in love for such a long time.”
This young girl perceives family life and the adult world in a very different way than did her counterpart less than half a century ago. Likewise, the mother perceives her daughter quite differently than did a mother raising a child in the 1940s. Although this mother was surprised at her daughter’s question, she was not surprised at her understanding of divorce, nor at her familiarity with the symptoms of romance. Read More »
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Moving On
The effect of breakup
on the kids’ own relationships
hinges on the parent-child bond
on the kids’ own relationships
hinges on the parent-child bond
Reprinted courtesy Pscyhology Today
Laurie Purcell’s eight-year marriage ended because she was in love with the wrong man for the wrong reasons. Read More »
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How to Manage Your Kids
Reprinted courtesy Psychology Today
How child raising has always been the most important activity
of the human animal, male or female.
The importance of hands-on fathering.
Why the American culture needs more parents, not more babies.
What parents cannot expect from their children.
The Ten Commandements of parenting
21 tricks for taming children.
21 tricks for taming adolescents. Read More »
Posted in Parenting & Family | Comments (0)
