by Evergreen Psychotherapy | Dec 13, 2023 | Parenting
The holiday season can be even more fun for families when parents consciously work to lessen stress and focus themselves and their children on building loving relationships. Here are just a few ways to make December merry and bright: Embrace family rituals. Family...
by Terry Levy | Aug 15, 2018 | Parenting
This is the final part of a series we have titled “Concepts and Skills of Parenting.” It is adapted from the book Healing Parents: Helping Wounded Children Learn to Trust and Love. To read Part 1 — which provides a look at secure attachment at the start of life —...
by Terry Levy | Sep 21, 2017 | Parenting
In the past, children fulfilled a significant role in their family’s survival. Before supermarkets, pizza delivery, washing machines and dryers and today’s “smart” appliances, families were burdened with a tremendous amount of work. Food had to...
by Terry Levy | Jul 12, 2017 | Parenting
Family routines and rituals increase your child’s sense of belonging. Routines — such as eating dinner, getting dressed or preparing for bed — are “patterned interactions that occur with predictable regularity in the course of everyday...
