Character building

Raising kids has always been hard work, and it has become harder still over the past few years. What others think of us matters, and their perceptions influence how we think, dress, react, and parent. Our social, cultural and historical contexts have a great impact on our behavior. When I was teaching third-year undergraduates, I’d […]

There is a lot of information about what you should do if your child is bullied. There’s also a lot of information about how parents can lessen the risk of bullying for their children. Problem is, much of this information is so conflicting that it is not always easy to know what to do. We […]

Negative self-talk is destructive, but it is also rather common in kids. It is a means through which your child expresses himself and what he is saying could actually mean many things: lack of confidence, fear of making a fool out of himself, fear of failure, feeling of powerlessness, stress and anxiety, and so on. […]

Every child, everywhere, is at risk of sexual abuse. Although we all want to protect our kids from sex crimes, subconsciously we believe that they are not at a large risk of sexual abuse because “those crimes happen to other children.” Yet the statistics about child sexual abuse are terribly alarming. 10 percent of all […]

There are things in life that seem terribly hard to do: Feeling powerless to change the things and situations we encounter in life is far too common. When it seems difficult to lose weight or drop a bad habit, what we forget all too often is that those who have managed to do so have […]