parenting Archives - You Are Not Your Mother

This year has been traumatic for ourselves and our kids but there are things we can do to help our children grow through it. I

I’m not a great marketer and so I’ve been reading and following some expert-types to learn how to do it. One of the things they

It’s the therapy stereotype, right? It’s always the parents’ fault! No wonder then that many of the parents I see in my therapy office come

We do not raise children to go out into the world and be perfect and build perfect relationships with perfect people. That would be impossible.

A long, long time ago in my parenting (not professional) life, I got in a friendly argument with another mom about whether or not kids

A couple of years ago there was a lot of noise about that crying it out study, which indicated that “graduated extinction” (which is different from