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Help Your Child Discover Who They Are

A successful child is one who knows what he or she wants and how to get it. This can be easier said than done, especially if the child has not yet determined what it is that they want. In order for you to help your child discover what it is they wish to achieve or become, you must first get to know who your child is. Luckily, you get a head start.

Avoid Labeling Your Child

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Before you label your child with a characterization or career path, take a moment to consider why. Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Robin Berman, MD., says that often times, our inclination to label our children a certain way is a result of personal bias or upbringing.

Parents Not Accepting a Transgender Child

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The classic, fundamental role of a parent is to support, love, and care for their child. For the most part, parents know this when they sign up for the role. But what happens when your child is not the little person you expected? What if they are not even the person they expected?

The Six Stages of Attachment Parenting

Renowned developmental psychologist and author Dr. Gordon Neufeld, PhD., has formulated a framework of six stages that make up the attachment parenting theory, a style of parenting that believes a child’s need for attention and closeness to their parents must be fulfilled completely in their earliest years in order to keep it from preoccupying their goals later in life. Here, author and therapist Susan Stiffelman, MFT, outlines these stages.

Stage One

Does Attachment Parenting Create a Clingy Child?

A frequent concern about attachment parenting is that it will cause the child to develop a lasting dependency on the parent. If a child is given constant attention during their formative years, then perhaps they will expect and need this to continue indefinitely, right? Proponents of attachment theory insist just the opposite.

Dealing with People Who Judge Your Parenting Style

When it comes to the hardships of parenting, it can seem like everyone around you has an opinion on which one is the worst and how to handle them. What they don’t always tell you is that this can be the greatest hardship of them all. Reading up on helpful tips or taking in a few anecdotes from others can have its value, but what happens when information and judgment are thrown at you without your consent?