Posted on January 25th, 2012 by drstephaniesmith
One of the teachers in my daughter’s school was recently in an accident. While she was able to come back to work after a period of time, she looked different and had some limitations in what she could do. As we all know, accidents are common and injuries happen. When accidents happen, it’s important to talk [...]
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Posted on November 10th, 2011 by drstephaniesmith
The media is on fire with discussions about the Penn State University sexual abuse unfolding before our eyes in central Pennsylvania. While we don’t know the outcome of this story yet, we do know that child sexual abuse happens everyday. While difficult for most of us to talk about, it’s something that we should [...]
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Posted on September 1st, 2011 by ymyb
(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 [...]
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