by Jeff Packer | Mar 12, 2024 | Children & Adolescence, Conflict, Family, Parenting, Problem-Solving, Teens
When a mother holds her daughter for the first time, a number of overwhelming thoughts and feelings accumulate. We love our daughter so deeply and unconditionally. As our princesses grow, we watch our daughters blossom. We observe them in their playgroups, we watch...
by Jeff Packer | Feb 10, 2024 | Change, Children & Adolescence, Family, Parenting
We can do a lot to help our children be more truthful and honest. As parents, our response to children, both when they are honest and when they misbehave, has a significant impact on their inner thoughts, feelings and choices. Sometimes we just get into a pattern of...
by Jeff Packer | Jan 22, 2024 | Anger Management, Children & Adolescence, Parenting, Teens
Teens Test Tolerance! Sometime our teenagers seem to give us such a hard time we can feel like strangling them or just simply like giving up. It is common to feel like this. You are not alone when you feel frustrated and overwhelmed by this stage of family life....
by Jeff Packer | Mar 18, 2018 | Anger Management, Blended Family, Love & Relationships, Marriage, Mental Health, Parenting
Family Systems Theory – by Susan Packer It has been said that laughter is infectious. Joy and happiness can be transferred from one to another simply through a smile. Likewise, negative emotions such as anger, fear and sadness easily move from one individual...
by Jeff Packer | Nov 4, 2013 | Anxiety, Change, Discipline, Problem-Solving, Stress
Money and Mood Connection It’s late at night, all of our daily tasks are accomplished, we lay in our bed, our heads hit the pillow, and we anticipate absolute silence, until we succumb to sleep. However we begin to toss and turn, and start to reflect on that day. We...
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