Babies are needy. Everyone knows this. A newborn infant has no ability to meet their needs for food, comfort or shelter, aside from using their little lungs to make big noise. If you gave birth to a child or brought one home from the hospital in an adoptive or foster …
You just confronted your child about the candy wrappers you found in his or her room. (You don’t allow eating in the bedrooms.) Your child flies of the handle and starts screaming, “I hate you! You don’t love me.” The stimulation at the arcade birthday party was too great. All …
Songs can be a great way to teach values to kids. Instead of constantly repeating what you want kids to learn, you can let a song do the work. Songs can also be used to create a shared enjoyable experience for the family, and contribute to bonding. Need some examples …
The family is a team. Its members spend lots of time together. Its member work out together. The team plays together, loses together, and wins together. When a new team member (or members!) enter, team identity can suffer, or even fall apart, especially when that new team member (or members) …
For those of you who have welcomed children into your home from a hard place, this season of additional fear and anxiety could be taking an extra toll on you and your family. You might even feel this season is more difficult but in different ways than you originally expected. …
Bang! The piece of silverware hit the kitchen counter. I jumped. I’d dropped my pen multiple times earlier. I’d fumbled the water pitcher. I’d run into walls of the home I’d lived in for quite some time. It was the first morning of COVID-19 restrictions, and I wasn’t regulated. I’d …
Social Distancing is a phrase that many of us have never even heard of until recently. Being socially responsible during a pandemic can feel incredibly isolating and it can seem almost impossible to continue nurturing relationships with the people around us. Nurturing relationships during this time is not only possible …
Right now we are all trying to avoid catching illness. As a society we are increasing our awareness of germs and how we spread germs so that we can conduct our lives in an informed manner. Like germs and viruses we are also spreading something else, our emotions. Research shows …
The other night I was at my limit and said, “I’m going to the store to get some ice cream.” As soon as I said it, the realization of our current situation hit me. And just like a two-year-old, I quickly started to fall apart because my idea of getting …
“How long will this take?” is a question we get a lot as counselors. The answer is, “We don’t know.” We don’t really know when your child will be ready to process his or her trauma, or how long your child will need to work through it. What we do …