Every family develops its own unique emotional ecosystem, and within that system, children naturally take on different roles to help the family function and to secure their own place within it. While each family is different, certain patterns appear repeatedly across diverse backgrounds and ...
Every family develops its own unique emotional ecosystem, and within that system, children naturally take on different roles to help the family function and to secure their own place within it. While each family is different, certain patterns appear repeatedly across diverse backgrounds and ...
The patterns we carry into adulthood often have their roots in the roles we played in our childhood families. These roles developed as intelligent survival strategies — ways to navigate our family's emotional landscape and secure love, safety and belonging. They helped us make sense of ...
You're in the pharmacy line again. Your phone buzzes: it's the home aide, and Dad's refusing his shower. Your own doctor's appointment got pushed for the third time because there wasn't anyone else to drive Mom to hers. Someone at church asked how your mother is doing, and you gave the update, ...
You noticed it this week. You stepped outside after dinner and it was already dusk. The light's going. And somewhere under the ordinary annoyance about the clocks, a heavier thought surfaced, the one you've had every October for years: here it comes. The tiredness. The pull toward the couch. ...
Do you know a child who has a lot of difficulty getting to school? Consider an anxious second-grader named Ella. Ella is a second-grader who says she “hates school.” She often refuses to get ready for school in the morning, and when she does make it to school, she complains of ...
It arrives on a Tuesday afternoon, six weeks into the school year. Subject line: Quick check in. The teacher is kind about it. Your son is bright, she says, and sweet, but he's having trouble staying on task. He blurts. He loses papers. He's under the desk when he should be at it. She wonders ...
It's easy for parents and communities sometimes to think that mental health is more of an adult issue. After all, kids are young and resilient, right? But sometimes they definitely need help too. "I believe we are turning the tide the tiniest bit," said Rebecca Dutson, president and CEO of ...
Ask people if technology has too much influence in their lives and the vast majority will likely respond with a resounding "Yes!" But if you follow up by asking what they plan to do about it, the answer will likely be a lot less clear. "We need to remember that we have created systems in ...
You drove home from the dorm a month ago. You held it together in the parking lot, mostly. Now it's a Tuesday night and the house is quiet in a way it hasn't been in eighteen years. No thump of a backpack in the hall. No one asking what's for dinner. You catch yourself standing in the doorway ...
