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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

This Conversation Is the Best Valentine to Give Your Kids

Early conversations about healthy friendships teach young people skills and boundaries that form the foundation for safer, healthier romantic relationships during adolescence.
Parenting
fromPsychology Today
3 months ago

Any Medical Procedure Can Traumatize Your Child

Young children often develop harmful, enduring self-narratives and trauma after medical procedures because they cannot understand the interventions or reconcile caregivers causing pain.
Parenting
fromPsychology Today
3 months ago

How to Keep Medical Procedures From Traumatizing Your Child

Elicit and validate a child's emotions before giving facts about a medical procedure to prevent trauma and help form accurate body narratives.
fromSlate Magazine
3 months ago

My Daughter Is Beginning to Notice Her Father's "Oddities." I Don't Know How to Explain It to Her.

My daughter's father has some diagnosed mental health issues (and some that are not and probably never will be diagnosed). In terms of behavior, this looks like mood swings, shopping sprees, a lot of very elaborate plans that don't come to fruition, periods of inertia, struggling with basic upkeep in the home, and anger (never directed at her). Dear Trying, Officially, we have 50/50 custody, although in reality, I do most of the parenting.
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