3 Tips for Parental Alienation Victims’ Partners
The first date you have with a Victim of Parental Alienation, you automatically became a victim too. When you became their boyfriend, girlfriend, husband or wife, you clinched the deal,…
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The Facebook Political War
“There’s only a certain amount of retard I can take in a day, as I’m sure is the case with everyone, but Facebook now narrows the margin to 5 mins…
Get Ready for Back-to-School (Useful Advice from Around the Web)
It’s still a few weeks away, but it’s not too early to begin to think about the fall return to school.
Childhood Trauma: How We Learn to Lie, Hide, and Be Inauthentic
Naturally, human beings strive to seek truth. Ideally, we also aim to tell the truth. However, most people are highly inauthentic, overly worried about others opinions‘ of them, and constantly…
Is Social Media Making Kids (And Adults) Lose The Ability To Think?
We notice that even adults including us who spend time on social media, whether for work or leisure, find transitioning to other activities can often be challenging.
An Abusive Parent’s Response
‘I plan not to read it’, responded American actress Joan Crawford when asked if she intended to read Mommie Dearest. That now legendary book, later made into a movie starring Faye…
Early Gender Choices Show Career/Home Path
The idea that girls should have careers rather than staying at home and being housewives has long been encouraged by feminism. In 1992 the President of the Ms. Foundation for…
Traumatic Experience: 8 Misconceptions of Childhood Trauma
What is trauma? How would you describe it? If I were to quiz you on trauma would you know how to define it? You might say something like trauma is…
The good, Good, GOOD Narcissist
Sometimes, adult children of narcissists need validation. No. Make that all the time. I’ve written about being raised like a Project, not a Person. I’ve written about feeling like Exhibit…
Separated Children Reunited with Parents: Understanding and Easing Reactions
There are few parents who have been separated from their children who don’t visualize and anticipate scenes of joyous reunion. While that may be possible in some cases, the ages…
Defeating Pathological Liars: 5 Things You Must Do
Do you know someone who lies frequently about any and everything? Have you caught someone in a few lies and wonder why they continue to engage in the behavior?…
6 Steps Parents Can Take to Challenge Gender Stereotypes
Demeaning women is caused by patriarchy.
Incest in Game of Thrones: A Worrisome Entertainment Trend
I’m not much for watching telly, so it took me seven years to finally decide to see what the Game of Thrones buzz was all about. It’s a good drama….
Is It Really Possible to “Do No Harm?”
All healthcare workers are aware of the ethical principle, “First, do no harm.” This popular saying derives from the Latin phrase, “primum non nocere.” The term is particularly popular among…
Children Are Human Too. I Learned that From Mrs. Simons.
She was the best, the very best, teacher. EVER. In twelve years of schooling, it’s Mrs. Loretta Simons I think of most frequently and most fondly for one simple reason:…
Freud’s Theory Has Been Validated
One of Freud’s important theories dealt with what he called a fixation. He posited that when children go through their early stages of development, if they undergo stressful interactions caused…
Predators Hidden by Positive Stereotypes:Past and Present Danger
A stereotype is a preconceived, fixed notion, especially about a person or group of people. Most of us are familiar with the ongoing danger of negative stereotyping. Over centuries, across…
Let’s Explore! The American Academy of Pediatrics Report on Kids and Digital Technology
In October, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published a technical report entitled Children and Adolescents and Digital Media.[i] In this report they write: “Over the past decade, the use…