Category: Resilience
How can I teach my daughter to love her body – however it looks – with all the emphasis on beauty and thinness everywhere in the media? An attendee at the second taping of…
There are too many opportunities to talk to our kids about sad or difficult events. Often adults find those conversations even scarier than the hearing about the event itself. Doctor G has 5 steps…
My 14 year old daughter wants me to walk her to the schoolbus stop. Except, she doesn’t want her friends to know, so she makes me hide a block away behind a car, and wants me…
Doctor G was really excited to be the keynote speaker at the International Nanny Association’s national conference this past weekend. One of the nannies was kind enough to ask this great question about how…
Tattling annoys adults. And it doesn’t usually help kids (even though they always think it will!). Here is one way to cut way down on the tattling!…
Most people believe that children only have prejudice if they are raised by people with prejudice. That’s just not true. Young children and cautious children often have an inherent distrust of that which they…
My friend and I are really worried about dieting in front of our girls. We don’t use the word, and we say we are trying to be “healthier”, but we are really worried about…
My son is turning 5 in the fall, and we’re getting a lot of conflicting advice about kindergarten. Do we send him, and have him be maybe the youngest in his class? Or keep…
I’m answering questions over at EverydayFamily today, this batch is about toddlers and preschoolers having trouble accepting a new baby. We can’t control how our kids feel about their sibling, but we can put…