Before You Can Let Them, You Need this Skill
When your partner leaves dishes in the sink for the third day in a row, what happens inside you? Maybe your chest tightens. Maybe your mind starts building a case:
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How to Stop Getting So Mad So Easily: PAUSE
Your child asks you if they can stay up past bedtime, which is a simple request. Yet somehow, in the space between their question and your response, your nervous system
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How to Parent Better by Doing Less: Just Do Nothing
Parenting is hard. Whatever your circumstances, it’s just hard. For me, it became harder after my divorce because now I was a single parent with all the feelings that go
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Why Is It Hard to Say Goodbye?
As my youngest child prepares to leave for college, I’ve been thinking a lot about saying goodbye — about how we say goodbye and that no matter how much I’ve
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What Do I Say When My Child Asks When Coronavirus Will Go Away?
If you haven’t gotten this question yet as a parent, I’d bet it’s coming. Parents are more anxious, and so are kids. Remember that you can’t control your own anxious
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Certainty is a Feeling, Not a Fact
“Certainty is a feeling, not a fact” is a well-known phrase among OCD and anxiety therapists, but it bears spending some time unpacking. Anyone who reads my stuff regularly knows
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5 Steps to Respond to Your Child’s Worries
How to best respond to our children’s worries and anxiety is one of the questions I’m asked most often. In this month’s Northeast Ohio Parent’s article, I dive into the
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Tips to Talk to Your Kids about Therapy
Even though their mom was a therapist, my kids complained when they were little about seeing one. Looking back, I completely own that I probably didn’t present the whole thing
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5 Lessons from the College Admissions Scandal
As I read about the college admission scandal, I find myself filled with equal parts of anger and sadness. So much so that I felt compelled to write this. I’m
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5 Ways to Show Up
My son is learning to drive. Talk about anxiety! His is one of those situations where I really have to be aware of my verbal and nonverbal communication. If I’m
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When Being Right Isn’t Right
I don’t know about you, but my kids never miss an opportunity to tell me what I’ve done wrong. They remind me that I “didn’t like their haircut enough 11
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How Do We Know If We’re Listening to Our kids? Really Listening?
One of the greatest — and hardest — parenting skills we can learn is to REALLY listen to our children. When I discuss the how’s of listening, or validation, most
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