The baby boomers of free love, and The Rolling Stones, are also the “wild children” who booed LBJ, were labeled “bums,” by President Nixon, and later, as young adults, embraced the free economy ideals of Ronald Reagan. Forever young, this generation, like all that have come before them are now moving into their senior years. [...]

What makes so many moms so special to so many families are often the qualities that make Venusians so special as well. On this Mothers Day we thought it would be a good time to reflect on some of those qualities and share some of the reasons why having a great mom in your life [...]

When parents share their negative emotions, a child feels an overwhelming need to provide comfort for the parent. In a very real sense, the child begins to feel responsible for the parent. The reason is simple: children are hardwired to please their parents. When parents share negative emotions, their children feel an instinctive responsibility to [...]

Do you remember Elaine’s friend in the classic television sitcom Seinfeld? She would taunt her friend with those five words: “Ya gotta have a baby.” just how irresistible is that idea anyway? Well as you can see from these brief stories of women who span an age difference of 30 years, the urge to have [...]

In Michael Gurian’s book Boys and Girls Learn Differently, this educator, family therapist, and author of fifteen books, shares with parents and teachers ten areas in which brain-based research has been able to identify significant differences in how boys and girls learn and function in the classroom. Gurian’s chief argument is that this is not [...]

As reported this week by the Associated Press, there’s been a dramatic drop in the percentage of children being bullied or beaten up by their peers. These findings were revealed in a national survey by experts who believe anti-bullying programs are starting to have an impressive impact on what has been a long standing and [...]

Actually it’s a tough question, with no easy answer. A recent study in The Journal of Happiness Studies revealed that with great consistency children are a source of joy for parents and, in fact, the more the merrier with greater happiness reported in families with two, three, or more children.
But other studies have painted a [...]

As we all know, Christmas brings happiness and heartaches, joy and stress. For parents of children, toddlers through teens, that stress is often heightened by a parent’s fear that they are not able to provide the kind of Christmas for their child that they hoped they would.
That could mean many things, from not finding the [...]

Technology has changed the way we communicate so dramatically and in such a short period of time that every now and then we have to pause, catch our collective breaths, and take notice of where we are moving as a society. A recent survey released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, found that 25 [...]

Most people envision a handicapped person as someone in a wheelchair. But, while seemingly common, that isn’t the only type of handicap. There are others that we can’t see. People can be emotionally, mentally, and spiritually crippled as well.
Emotional handicaps tend to be a product of one’s own maturation – how a child was nurtured, [...]