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Creating Emotional Safety by Ilene Val-Essen, Ph.D.

Creating Emotional Safety by Ilene Val-Essen, Ph.D.

Parents don’t agree on everything and they certainly don’t need to. But one dream that we all share is that our children enjoy emotional safety. I’m a parent and a grandparent and an author of a parenting book, yet I’ve never let these words roll off my tongue. Still if I describe emotional safety, I …

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Pre-Teen Gives Advice To Young Kids With ADHD And Their Parents

Pre-Teen Gives Advice To Young Kids With ADHD And Their Parents

We asked Sawyer Farnan to make a video “letter” to parents of ADHD children. Sawyer is an 11-year-old boy with ADHD who was willing to pass on his hard-earned wisdom to any young kids who have been diagnosed with ADHD — or whose parents suspect that their child’s impulsivity and hyperactivity might be ADHD. We …

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A Teenager’s Advice to Parents of Pre-teens About Being Too Trusting and Permissive

A Teenager’s Advice to Parents of Pre-teens About Being Too Trusting and Permissive

It’s a real gift when a young adult tells us grown-ups what they know works really well with their age group.  This video features a teen who was raised strictly, but with mutual respect and trust.   Zander has some advice for parents who might make the mistake of giving too much trust to their …

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The Fragile Teen Age Psyche Needs Lots of Respectful Emotional Support

The Fragile Teen Age Psyche Needs Lots of Respectful Emotional Support

Caitlin Mezger-Sieg is a young women who tells a poignant tale of surviving the break-up of her family and the difficulties of navigating adolescence, simultaneously. With simple eloquence she points out how things would have been so much easier for her with some additional respectful attention and compassionate emotional support. As parents we all know …

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4 Keys To What Works Best With Older Kids

4 Keys To What Works Best With Older Kids

I had a chance to interview an educator named Diallo Grant, who uses the practice of mutual respect in his after-school program  for kids who are homeless. We asked him to tell us in the following video about the key factors he identifies as being the source of the program’s success with these kids…factors like …

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Do You Know Your Child’s Primary Language of Love?

Do You Know Your Child’s Primary Language of Love?

“All you need is love,” so the Beatles lyrics tell us.  What the song doesn’t tell us is how to get the experience of love. Words of affirmation, acts of service, receiving gifts, quality time and physical touch – what do they have in common?  They are all languages of love. Dr. Gary Chapman is a pastor …

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