“Helicopter Parents”?”Monster Parents”? “Free-Range Parenting? – Part 1 – Are you ‘Helicopter Parents”?

You may hear a lot about the term “Helicopter Parents”, “Monster Parents” and “Free-Range Parenting”. How much do you know about these terms? Do you know the difference between them? You will know more about the definition, the origins, the characteristics, the consequences and the possible solution for “Helicopter Parents” in this articles. Definition The term “Helicopter parents” is often used to define a group…

Coping With A Stressful Situation: Managing Your Emotions

When you’re dealing with a difficult situation, one of the first steps is to comfort yourself and manage your emotions.Even when you’re in the right about a situation, if you act impulsively and emotionally it’s unlikely others will listen. They’ll tell you to calm down and don’t get so upset. They also may find themselves reacting first and regretting later. Mindfulness is a skill that helps…

Parenting: Your Children Send Messages Too

Your children are constantly sending you messages that you may or may not be getting or interpreting correctly. Your ability to receive and understand those messages can help you send the best messages in the best way to them (and when to stop sending messages or change your messages). Children are incredibly good at sending their parents messages about how they are doing at any given…

Why A Teen Who Talks Back May Have A Bright Future

  Psychologist Joseph P. Allen says almost all parents and teenagers argue. But it’s the quality of the arguments that makes all the difference. “We tell parents to think of those arguments not as nuisance but as a critical training ground,” he says. Such arguments, he says, are actually mini life lessons in how to disagree — a necessary skill later on in life with partners,…

Want a new start? 30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself

As Maria Robinson once said, “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”  Nothing could be closer to the truth.  But before you can begin this process of transformation you have to stop doing the things that have been holding you back. Here are some ideas to get you started: Stop spending time with…

Why do we dream?

Freud said that on most nights, we dream. Dreams allow us to be what we cannot be, and to say what we do not say, in our more repressed daily lives.  Dreams are lot like poetry, we use images more than words; we combine incongruent elements to evoke emotion in a more efficient way than wordier descriptions can; and we use unconscious and tangential associations…

When Parents Disagree About Their Adolescent

The problem of parental disagreement starts from the child’s birth when diverging ideas about child rearing unexpectedly arise. As father, one parent will be influenced by his own male training growing up and this may bias his perception and approach to a son and daughter. So maybe he believes competing hard and performing well is what matters most. As mother, the other parent will be…

Different Options for Coping with ADHD

The key behavioral signs of ADHD in children are inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. Adults with ADHD often exhibit signs of depression, mood swings, anger and relationship issues, poor time management skills, and procrastination. Research indicates that it is caused by a genetic chemical imbalance in the brain and therefore can be inherited although there are some who believe that factors like food additives contribute to the disorder. Most do agree though that triggers…

Flexible Workplaces Promote Better Health Behaviour and Well-Being

A flexible workplace initiative improved employees’ health behavior and well-being, including a rise in the amount and quality of sleep and better health management, according to a new study by University of Minnesota sociology professors Erin Kelly and Phyllis Moen, which appears in the December issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. The key findings show that employees participating in the flexible workplace initiative…