by Lisa Marchiano, LCSW | Apr 29, 2021 | Article, Existing posts
In part one of this blog post, I noted that adolescents are prone to face questions of meaning as they enter adulthood. At such a time, they often look to us to see how we have negotiated these existential matters. Often, youth find that the adults in their lives are...
by Lisa Marchiano, LCSW | Apr 22, 2021 | Article, Existing posts
“The young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded….They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have...
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?”...
by Lisa Marchiano | Jan 26, 2018 | Article, Uncategorized
Do Kids Have Too Much Power? January 26, 2018 These days, there is a widespread tendency for children of all ages to have too much power relative to their parents. I realize it sounds a bit old-fashioned to say this, and in fact I believe this trend has developed in...
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