Children

Don’t be afraid to say, “I’m sorry.” Have ever completely lost it with your kids? You’re not alone. As parents we’re overstressed and sleep-deprived, strung

I never liked cancer. I like it even less now. In my work as a hospice chaplain and grief counselor, I interact with cancer in

Today, children’s play is often tainted with boxes to check and points to score. So often teachers will say things like “they think they’re playing,

It is never easy dealing with death. As adults, it overwhelms us. For children it can be harder for them to understand what dying means.

You can ask your little one “What do you want to be when you grow up?” a thousand times and hear a thousand different answers.

I worked with a client whose son suddenly began displaying aggressive tendencies towards her and his younger siblings. She told me that they were going

We live in an “entitled” society. Gone are the days of working for what you have. Earning a reward seems to be a foreign concept

When you reward bad behavior, you literally wire your child’s brain to repeat the bad behavior. No parent intends to do that, but it happens

Given that eleven million American families are headed by a single parent, it’s hard to stand behind the idea that, somehow, these kids are destined

Every loving parent wants childhood to be a positive experience for their kids. When it comes to parenting however, only focusing on the positive is