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When Your Child Has Problems at School: 6 Tips for Parents

March 28th, 201103:14 PM ET

By Empowering Parents

Have you gotten "the call" from your child's school? Janet Lehman, MSW talks frankly about how she and her husband James dealt with it when their son had trouble at school. In September of our son's third grade year, we got the phone call from his teacher. She said she was really concerned about our child's chances of passing that year. I was s...
Teens Caught in a Digital World

March 24th, 201112:31 AM ET

By Mark Gregston

Laptops, iPhones, iPads, iPods, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Yourspace, IM, Droids, apps, downloads, wireless, 3G, 4G, iTunes, Blackberry, bluetooth, Xbox, Wii…everything about how we engage with and communicate with other people has changed. It can be overwhelming. And perhaps the most dramatic impact of all this “progress” on our teenagers...
Developing Responsibility in Your Teen

March 23rd, 201103:14 PM ET

By Mark Gregston

I have a word of advice that is applicable to almost every parent of a teenager in today’s world. Stop! More specifically, stop doing so many things for your teen. By doing too much, you are likely stifling their motivation, limiting their creativity, promoting irresponsibility and postponing maturity. You may even be taking away the sense of ...
The Top 5 Parenting Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

March 16th, 201102:36 PM ET

By Empowering Parents

As parents, we all make mistakes. On the Parental Support Line, I often encourage parents to give themselves a break—after all, it's impossible for any of us to be perfect. Our kids test us at every age and stage; it's part of their job as children to push boundaries with us and see where the line is drawn. As they get older, it can often fee...
Tired of Yelling at Your Child? Stop Screaming-and Start Parenting Effectively

March 10th, 201109:19 AM ET

By Empowering Parents

If you're a parent, you've probably been there: your child says or does something that pushes your buttons, and the next thing you know, you're yelling at the top of your lungs—and she's responding in kind. Afterward, you feel drained, upset and frustrated and wonder why it always has to come down to a screaming match. Janet Lehman, MSW,...
Dealing with Child Temper Tantrums from Toddler to Pre-teen

March 03rd, 201104:19 PM ET

By Empowering Parents

Why are temper tantrums so difficult for parents to handle? Besides the fact that they're loud, annoying and embarrassing, we often feel it's our job requirement to make our kids act the way we feel they should behave. If we can't do that, we feel ineffective. We also don't like the judgments that we imagine others are making of us when our kid...