by Lisa Marchiano, LCSW | Mar 25, 2021 | Article, Existing posts
Most parents get angry with their children frequently, and when we do, we often feel badly about it. While unrestrained parental rage can be damaging to a child, in recent posts, (see here and here) I’ve been taking a look at the potential positive side of...
by Lisa Marchiano, LCSW | Mar 18, 2021 | Article, Existing posts
Burning with rage at our children is a nearly universal experience, and yet it is one that most moms feel great shame and remorse about. It is frightening to find ourselves capable of wrath and perhaps even violent impulses toward those whom we love so greatly. Could...
by Lisa Marchiano, LCSW | Mar 11, 2021 | Article, Existing posts
Charley Pride was the son of an African American sharecropper in Mississippi. As a young man working alongside his father picking cotton, he mapped out his escape from the sharecropping life – he would play major league baseball and “break all the records” like Jackie...
by Lisa Marchiano, LCSW | Mar 4, 2021 | Article, Existing posts
The title is a bit of an overstatement. However, there are some good reason to consider giving your adolescent a taste of independence. Throughout recorded history, children were often sent away from home to live with adults other than parents at the end of childhood,...
by Lisa Marchiano, LCSW | Feb 25, 2021 | Article, Existing posts
Before I became a mother, I asked an older woman who was a mentor to me what she would have done differently if she could live her life over. “I would have had more children,” she said. “Being a mother was my refiner’s fire. Who would I have become if I had had more?”...
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