Talking With Your Child About 9/11

(Guest post by Ron Palomares, PhD, psychologist.) “Daddy, why is everyone talking about ‘9/11’ and seeming so sad?” How do you answer a question like that, when your child was not alive or too young to remember that day you and I could never forget? As the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks [...]

School Days… Reassessing What May Not Be Working

Classes are back in session…. Families are trying to establish and get used to a more scheduled routine.  As the year starts, it might be a good time to evaluate what worked for your family last year that helped things run smoothly and what did not. Often we just revert back to old habits and [...]

Vacation hassles? Take a picture!

  Looking for some fiction to read this summer?  Try a travel brochure. Those beautiful glossy pamphlets promise you the time of your life, with nonstop fun.  To illustrate their promises, they show pictures of perfect people with perfect bodies and perfect teeth, frolicking and smiling.  No one has sunburn, sore feet or indigestion. The [...]