by Jeff Packer | Mar 2, 2024 | Children & Adolescence, Family, Friendship, Teens
You’re Not Alone in This… There Are Others Out There! Today we hear from a young teen who admittedly struggles with being an only child. This is useful for others as well as for parents who are seeking a deeper understanding and ways to help their child grow and...
by Jeff Packer | Mar 1, 2024 | Children & Adolescence, Discipline, Family, Marriage, Parenting
“My Kids are Driving Me Crazy” Wait one minute. Who’s the parent? Who’s in charge here? It is very important to first take three or four deeeeep breaths and then, second, answer these two questions calmly. Of course you are the parent and you...
by Jeff Packer | Feb 29, 2024 | Children & Adolescence, Crisis, Discipline, Family, Parenting, Stress, Teens
Probably the single most challenging issue we face as humans, compared to other mammals, is the length of time it takes us to raise our young. Depending on the area of the globe you live in, this can range anywhere from sixteen to twenty years. In most...
by Jeff Packer | Feb 27, 2024 | Change, Children & Adolescence, Cooperative Parenting, Diabetes, Family, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Parenting, Separation & Divorce, Teens
Sometimes a new diagnosis for your child may release certain feelings: guilt, shame, embarrassment, or regret. We might tend to push these feelings aside and focus on the “main concern,” that being our child. Getting counselling or therapy help for our...
by Jeff Packer | Feb 26, 2024 | Anxiety, Family, Mental Health, Problem-Solving, Stress
“Bernice’s OCD began shortly after the death of her father. Since then, it had waxed and waned and currently, was as severe as it had ever been. Bernice was obsessed with a fear of contamination, a fear she vaguely linked to her father’s death from...
by Jeff Packer | Feb 25, 2024 | Change, Diabetes, Eating Disorder, Family, Mental Health, Parenting, Stress, Teens
Help For Eating Disorders Saves Lives – Durham Region In a “sweeping” analysis of 77 studies, involving more than 15,000 subjects, University of Wisconsin researchers post-doctoral student Shelley Grabe and psychology professor Janet Hyde found that...
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