Can Motherhood Make You Badass?

Can Motherhood Make You Badass?

My mother was never very good at saying “no.” When as I teenager I would ask her for something she needed to deny me, it would tie her in knots. She would get angry at me for having even asked. When my daughter became a toddler, we began to have battles over TV. She...
Am I Raising a Narcissist?

Am I Raising a Narcissist?

Recently, some research on parental overvaluation created a stir by suggesting that treating our kids as “special” can lead them to develop narcissistic traits. You can take parental overvaluation quiz here. I imagine most of us know of a parent who...
Managing Adolescent Volatility

Managing Adolescent Volatility

If we are parenting an adolescent, we realize that the teen years come upon us as a second storm after the relative reprieve of the school years. Teenagers can be as changeable as toddlers, but their outbursts are more frightening, and carry more potential for real...