Mediating Custody in Highly Contested Divorce Cases
Child custody is often the most contentious aspect of divorce proceedings. But this doesn’t have to be the case for you and your soon-to-be-ex
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Eight Pieces of Wisdom for Parents Sending a Child off to College
After saying goodbye to your college student on move-in day, one of the hardest things to come to grips with at home is the yawning lack of information. You’re excluded from your student’s experience in a new, jarring way, and no one will invite you in except your student — and that’s only if they want to. That doesn’t mean you disappear from their lives; far from it. But it does mean you play a different role.
Read MoreWe Have Slashed and Burned the Core Features of Childhood
Through the pathological undervaluation of children’s culture, what we have effectively managed to do is slash and burn core features of childhood—the very roots of what makes us human.
Read MoreHow Parents Are Robbing Their Children of Adulthood
How Parents Are Robbing Their Children of Adulthood: Today’s “snowplow parents” keep their children’s futures obstacle-free — even when it means crossing ethical and legal boundaries.
Read MoreHow to Get Divorced without Hating Your Ex or Tearing Your Family Apart
A peaceful divorce can benefit both children and parents. Here is some advice for how to do it.
Read More“Birdnesting” Gives Kids One Stable Home after a Divorce. Does It Work?
When is a “nesting” parenting arrangement a viable option?
Read MoreSix Things Parents Can Do to Raise Kids to Be Confident Decision-Makers
This article by Kate Rope in The Washington Post is interesting. Six Things Parents Can Do to Raise Kids to Be Confident Decision-Makers On every vacation we allow our daughters to pick out a souvenir. We browse local shops until we find the “perfect” reminder of our time together. On a recent trip, my 6-year-old […]
Read MoreLeave Those Kids Alone: “Helicopter Parenting” Linked to Behavioral Problems
Children whose parents are over-controlling “helicopter parents” when they are toddlers are less able to control their emotions and impulses as they get older apparently leading to more problems with school, new research suggests.
Read MoreThe Child-Free Life: Why so Many American Women Are Deciding Not to Have Kids
This article by Petula Dvorak in The Washington Post is interesting. The Child-Free Life: Why so Many American Women Are Deciding Not to Have Kids Oh, come on, millennial women. Just look at us. Frantic and apologizing, overwhelmed between staff meetings and gymnastics, shamed for bottle-feeding, booted for breastfeeding, passed over for promotions, denied on the […]
Read MoreFive Myths about Fatherhood
I found this interesting article from The Washington Post titled “Five Myths of Fatherhood.”
Read MoreWhy a Baby’s Connection With a Parent Matters
This article by Dr. Perri Klass in The New York Times is interesting. Why a Baby’s Connection With a Parent Matters In pediatrics, attachment is the emotional connection that develops between a young child and a parent or other caregiver. Attachment theory was developed in the mid-20th century by a British psychiatrist, John Bowlby, whose […]
Read MoreTo Raise Better Kids, Say No
This article by Scott Sonenshein in The New York Times may be of interest. To Raise Better Kids, Say No Despite the temptation for parents to say yes to their children’s wishes, research shows there’s an insidious side to chasing after the newest thing others have. It fosters a sense of deficiency that can never […]
Read MoreA Personal Note about My Father
There will be no case summary today. Today I want to write about something more important than the law. I want to write about the importance of being a good parent after divorce. And I want to write about my father. My father died Wednesday, March 16, at age 79. He had been hospitalized since […]
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