September 28, 2023
by Elizabeth Pratt
Middle school can be rough.
Now research has backed up that if you’re not attractive or athletic in middle school, it can be a nightmare.
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July 30, 2022
by Elizabeth Pratt
Children who participate in extra-curricular activities are happier than their peers who spend their time playing video games or on social media.
Whether it be music lessons, clubs, catch ups with friends or sports practice, children who did out of school activities had greater wellbeing.
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February 26, 2021
by Elizabeth Pratt
Teenagers who bully may be using aggression as a technique to climb the social ladder.
Research from UC Davis published recently in the American Journal of Sociology found that teens who harass, bully or victimize their peers don’t always do this due to an unhealthy home environment or due to psychological problems, but out of a desire to strategically move up in a school’s social hierarchy.
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August 11, 2018
by Elizabeth Pratt
Back to school time can bring mixed emotions for students and parents. But for some kids, nerves about back to school can be due to something much more serious.
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March 23, 2017
by Christie Hunter
Do you know all the signs of a child who is being bullied? What may seem like "bad behavior" in your child could be a symptom of something much worse. Learn the signs of bullying.
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School is now in full swing and children, as well as then parents, are probably experiencing increased demands on their time and their coping abilities. School involves concerns beyond those experienced by parents when they were children. Not only do children today report anxiety about school performance and acceptance, they also deal with increased violence in their place of learning.
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September 24, 2015
by Lorna Hecht, MFT
Monday September 14, 14 year-old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested when school administrators and local police suspected him of having brought a bomb to school. Family Systems Theory provides a unique conceptual framework with which to view Mohamed’s story in an attempt to move toward an objective explanation of events.
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Our society tends to believe that if one works hard enough, they will do well. However, according to the recent census, two-thirds of people living in poverty are working 1.7 jobs. Many people work hard and are still not making it, not even for basic needs.
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December 14, 2014
by Marti Wormuth, MA
Bullying is something that has been in the news a lot more often as of late. With the internet, it has become much more difficult for us to figure out whether or not our child(ren) are getting bullied at school or on the internet. So what can we do in order to make sure that our children are kept safe? How can we help our children to learn that they are worthwhile so that they can live the lives that they deserve to have?
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July 28, 2014
by Christie Hunter
For many parents, educating their children is a job delegated to teachers where they absolve any responsibility to have any influence in shaping their child’s academics. This is the fundamental error that many parents commit where they are content being confined as only passive observers, reducing their role in perhaps the single most important event in the growth and development of their child. There has to be a realization on the part of parents to play an essential role in their children’s education. They have a lot to gain by doing so.
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