by Lisa Marchiano, LCSW | Nov 7, 2018 | Existing posts, Uncategorized
A recent parenting piece in the Washington Post detailed how schoolchildren are challenged in Japan, and how learning to handle difficulties pays off later when these kids reach adulthood. One paragraph in particular caught my eye and made my mother’s heart skip a...
by Lisa Marchiano, LCSW | Oct 16, 2018 | Article, Existing posts
Last week, I explored whether avoiding all anger at one’s children might be too much of a good thing. In essence, I argued that when children see us deal with our aggression, they learn to deal with theirs. Anger is most essentially a response to having one’s...
by Lisa Marchiano, LCSW | Sep 12, 2018 | Article, Existing posts
I learned early in my daughter’s toddler days that savvy moms don’t gasp or shriek when the baby falls and bumps herself. At playgroups, the correct response was modeled for me: toddler falls down; toddler looks toward mom with a face beginning to scrunch with...
by Lisa Marchiano, LCSW | Mar 2, 2018 | Article, Existing posts
My two kids have always had a competitive and contentious relationship. Now that they are teens, this friction often expresses itself as fierce disagreement on social and political issues. As the wider culture has grown increasingly polarized, so had our dinnertime...
by Lisa Marchiano, LCSW | Dec 27, 2017 | Existing posts, Uncategorized
When Carl Jung was a 12-year-old schoolboy, he was shoved to the ground by another child, hitting his head on the pavement, and nearly losing consciousness. Instantly, he grasped the opportunities created by this attack. At the moment I felt the blow, the thought...
by Lisa Marchiano, LCSW | Dec 15, 2017 | Article, Existing posts
I had a conversation with a mother in my practice this week that brought up something important. As usual, I tried to find a fairy tale that captured the essence of what this mother was struggling with. The right tale did come to mind – it’s a 12th century French...
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