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If your child has an imaginary friend, Dr. Neill Neill suggests a helpful article and movie on the topic.
Categories: Parenting
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Tags: children, family, imaginary friend, opal dreams, Parenting, psychology
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Teens indulge in more high-risk behavior in general than adults do. Understanding why teens take big risks is a key to good parenting. An adolescent brain is far from fully developed. Full brain development is reached somewhere beyond the age of 18, at least as far as the issue of high-risk behavior is concerned.
Categories: Parenting
| Tags: adolescent brains, brain development, children, drinking-and-driving, Parenting, self control, taking risks, teens
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Kevin at More4kids posted an important piece about the fact that labeling children or calling them demeaning names can do long-term damage to them. Parental pronouncements are swallowed whole and become part of the child’s view of the world. This childhood ability allows the child to learn huge quantities of information, attitudes and values without even thinking about it.
Categories: Parenting
| Tags: children, introjects, labeling, Parenting
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Parents with young children are totally involved in caring for and protecting their kids. They are enmeshed with their young children…But change comes quickly. Your kids learn to do things for themselves, and then demand to do them. They develop their own personalities.
Categories: Parenting
| Tags: adulthood, children, codependency, kids, Parenting, parents, psychology, trust
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Addiction to a drug like alcohol develops gradually. Drinking alcohol may start out as social fun, or it may from the beginning be a way of escaping pain and difficulty. Sometime I think of it as one of dissociation’s helpers, because alcohol helps a person to split off from reality. But that’s an idea for [...]
Categories: Alcoholism Symptoms
| Tags: abusive behavior, addiction, alcoholic, Alcoholism, alcoholism marriage, children, codependency, withdrawal
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