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What Can Parents Do?
There have been many a parent or spouse, brother or sister, who has lost their way in their worry about their loved one. They have forgotten their hopes and dreams and locked them in a trunk waiting until their loved one improves, feeling absolutely powerless. Creating healthy boundaries will allow these feeling to dissipate.
Articles About Parenting
Social Media Apps -Youth Exploitation and Legislative Oversight- A California update
I was excited to learn that my alma mater, the University of San Diego, their School of Law Children’s Advocacy Institute, along with Republican Jordan Cunningham of Paso Robles and Democrat Buffy Wikes Of Oakland, have authored a California bipartisan bill in state...
How Do You Talk to a Teen About Cannabis? – What’s Inside those Gummy bears and Chocolate chip Cookies?Â
Funny how when I was growing up, marijuana was marijuana, yet now we have a new word for an old substance, cannabis. The sad truth is teens are getting high on candies and cookies. Every day there is a new article written that indicates that schools are miffed by the...
The Crisis Of Wealth
We live in a time of unprecedented, voluptuous wealth. It can be measured in all sorts of ways, such as the high school senior driving a new Mercedes Benz or a five-bedroom apartment on Park Avenue. Two of the most successful TV shows running today, Yellowstone and...
Ornamental Children (written with the help of Maks Ezrin)
When Sam called last week, she was scared and frightened. Her beautiful 24-year-old daughter, Harriet, was raging once again, letting her know, in no uncertain terms, that she was a no good, very bad mother. Harriet said she was scared to leave her home, a beautifully...
Treatment Without Walls
Over the past year, I have been blessed to be able to work with many different behavioral health centers: Seasons Malibu, Milestones Malibu, Pointe Malibu, JFlowers Health Institute, A Mission for Michael, Cirque Lodge, Sabino Recovery, Futures, Balance, Life Sync,...
Is Happiness the Best Feeling?
As I continue to contemplate aging and wrangle with acceptance, I often wonder which feeling is predominant. People often ask if happiness is the goal of life and I wonder what happiness truly means. In truth, I have always had trouble with that feeling. It feels too...
Wise Potato Chips, Liquid Sunshine, a Wedding in the Forest and 75 Years
The sun gods were kind to my cousin Ryan and Martha, who planned their wedding in a forest. Traveling down dirt roads, we marveled at the countryside with little markers to save a tree or two to tell you where to turn till we arrived at a magical glen. Such are the...
How Families Cope After Suicide
When I was 7, my father died by suicide. To say I was traumatized to learn that he hung himself with a tie would be an understatement. My mother, also experiencing this trauma, had no place where she could share her loss and the feelings of guilt and shame and anger...
September Is National Suicide Prevention Month
Funny how we delegate days and months to certain causes. The truth is that every day should be a suicide prevention day. Sadly, death by suicide is among the leading causes of death overall in the United States. There are, on average, 123 suicides each day. It is the...
Additional Resources For Parents
Straight Talk
Claudia Black
Everything You Need to Know about Chemical Dependence
Vernon E. Johnson
The Brown Bottle
Penny Jones
Setting Rules And Limits Pamphlet
The Real Life Parenting Skills Program
Living With an Alcoholic
Al-Anon
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4787.Top_10_Parenting_Books_
http://www.parenting.com/blogs/mom-congress/melissa-taylor/10-best-books-thinking-parents
Bradshaw On the Family
John Bradshaw
The Journey of The Heroic Parent
Brad M. Reedy PHD
The Parallel Process
Krissy Pozatek
The Alcoholic Family in RecoveryÂ
Stephanie Brown PhD
Falling Up: A Memoir of Renewal
Louise Stanger
Learn To Thrive
Louise Stanger
Raising Happiness
Christine Carter PhD
Raising Lions
Joe Newman