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Check out these podcasts for more on How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t With Your Kids!
I was thrilled to sit down with the hosts from a variety of podcasts to chat about How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t With Your Kids and all things mindful parenting. If you're interested in conversations, chatter and general ramblings all about my new book and how to...
How the Snowplow Parenting Trend Affects Kids
Experts think that media has influenced the movement of parents intervening for their children in a myriad of ways. Helicopter parenting, for example, refers to "a style of parents who are over focused on their children," says Carolyn Daitch, Ph.D., director of the...
Understanding Why Parents Lose it and How to Stop
"We parents are losing our shit, and that sucks and we all want to do better but we don't know how. Also, because staying calm when everything is falling apart is the key to eternal happiness. OK, maybe not eternal happiness, but it is necessary to get the chaos under...
Multitasking is making parents lose it with their kids. Here’s how to break the cycle.
It’s an all-too-familiar scene in my house: I’m standing at the stove, stirring the mac and cheese while occasionally checking email or text messages on my phone. Meanwhile, my older daughter is at the kitchen table, asking for help with her homework and her sister is...
Yes, it is OK to yell at your kids, if done the right way.
Yelling tends to happen during a moment of heightened emotions, and heightened emotions tend to make our judgement blurry. We might have had a good reason to lose our cool, but once that cool is lost, it's easy to get carried away. Carla Naumburg, a clinical...
Therapy Made Me a Better Parent
I knew the statistics. I knew that as many as 20 percent of new mothers suffer from one or more types of postpartum anxiety. I knew the symptoms, including constant worry, irritability, sleep disturbances, and a relentless fear that something terrible might happen to...
Disobedient Teenager: Bad Behavior or Effort to be Independent?
What happens when a teen feels one way about a particular issue or problem and the parent has a very different take? At Your Teen, we understand that sometimes you need to look at a problem from multiple perspectives. It can also be helpful to hear from a neutral...
It Takes a Shtetl to Stay Sane When You’re a Parent
We Jews are not a solitary lot. We come together to pray, welcome new life, mourn our losses, celebrate our holidays, and raise our children. They say it takes a village to raise a child — and I say it takes a shtetl to stay sane while we raise said child. Oh, and...
