Hopeless to Hopeful
HOPELESS TO HOPEFUL Abandoned lunch boxes sat in lockers for weeks growing all sorts of colorful new lifeforms. Stinky PE clothes festered in the locker rooms. Overdue library books racked […]
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Resilience
Building Resilience
RESILIENCE: the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. You’ve no doubt heard this term resilience a lot in the media and in parent education books. Everywhere you read about
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Chronic Stress: It Ain’t Good
BLORFT: completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum -Tiny Fey, Bossypants When my daughter was in 7th
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The Emerging Butterfly
WHEN YOU ARE INTENSELY CONNECTED EMOTIONALLY, YOUR DAUGHTER’S EMOTIONS ARE STIFLED. To breathe, she must push you away. To spread her wings, she must push you away. To grow, she
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Talk About It: Depression & Suicide
As a professional who works with teens, people frequently ask me what signs they should be looking for in their teens regarding depression and risk of suicide. We’ve all seen
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Talking To Your Teen about Loss
We are mourning as a community today. We will be respecting the privacy of the family who is going through such a difficult tragedy by not sharing details at this
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She’s Not Porcelain
Think back to when your daughter was born. She was so fragile. You held her head otherwise it bobbled. You watched her every move and listened to her every breath
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Back-to-School Shopping
👚Your kid has grown an inch or two, the stains are too big to ignore, or her style has miraculously changed over the summer. That means it’s time to go
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5 BENEFITS OF TEEN VOLUNTEERING
“Giving is better than receiving.” This is what my daughter said when asked what she learns from volunteering. We have heard this often from people like Oprah and from our
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Who is She? Identity Formation
Middle school is when your child’s young adult identity is under construction and slowly emerges. According to Erickson, a Developmental Psychologist, in 6th grade your child is still grappling with
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