Personal Privacy or Secret Keeping?
By Susan Kurlander, M.Ed.
How can we help our children distinguish between privacy and secret-keeping? Let’s start with these 8 tips!
June 8, 2022
Category: Blogs-Children, Teens & Families
Feeling Their Pain and Processing Our Own
By Jacki Post Ashkin, LCSW-C
How do we process our own fears and emotions surrounding the repeated senseless violence – the sadness, anxiety, anger, horror?
May 27, 2022
“It’s Not My Fault…”
By Susan Kurlander, M.Ed.
How do we encourage accountability in our children? Here are 11 suggestions from JCS Health Educator and “Roots and Wings” series author.
May 10, 2022
How To “Find the Proper Edge”
By Christine Cronin, MSW, LCSW-C
Do you often find yourself in situations where you don’t know whether to speak up, help someone with a problem, or walk away? Consider these 6 reflection questions.
April 27, 2022
This Mother’s Day I was Supposed to be a Mother
By Daniella, Uprooted Client
Daniella shares her fertility journey and her feelings – the ups and the downs – surrounding Mother’s Day.
April 19, 2022
Sibling Rivalry: Friend or Foe
By Susan Kurlander, M.Ed.
For anyone who has more than one child, sibling rivalry can be challenging and seemingly ever present. Parents can make the situation more manageable by trying the following.
April 13, 2022
Stop, Smell, and Reach the Roses: Lessons Learned While Living with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
A teens ADHD journey awakens their perspective on life by breaking down barriers, finding relief, and experiencing vast emotional growth.
April 5, 2022
Are We Overscheduling Our Children?
By Jacki Post Ashkin, LCSW-C
What happened to the joy of just being a kid? Consider these 6 tips as you balance your children’s extracurriculars.
March 29, 2022
Roots and Wings: Navigating Peer Pressure
By Susan Kurlander, M.Ed.
Parents can help their children, at a young age, identify and respond to peer pressure in ways that are supportive rather than detrimental to their growth. Here are some suggestions.
February 17, 2022
5 Rules for Parenting on the Same Page
By Jacki Post Ashkin, MSW, LCSW-C
For the wellbeing of your kids, it is important to unite as parents. Next time your parenting perspectives don’t align, remember these 5 guidelines.
January 28, 2022