The Snowball Effect: When Laziness Can Trump Ambition

Christine Carter, Ph.D.www.raisinghappiness.com My best advice for keeping New Year’s resolutions this year—based on decades of multi-disciplinary research and years of personal experience—is to be decidedly unambitious about it. I’m not suggesting you should avoid failure by not making resolutions this year.  Just that we are better able to make changes over the long-term when [...]

Four Ways to Connect to Your Teen

As the lives of our growing teens become more demanding and involved, they move further away from the family routine of their childhood. Being excited about mom’s help in school, play dates and the general support that parents provide to young children fade as they progress through their teen years and become more dependent on [...]

Be the Anti-Bully: There’s No Such Thing as an Innocent Bystander

Jerry Weichman, Ph.D.www.drjerryweichman.com In case you haven’t heard, bullying is a hot topic this school year.  It is likely you have already sat through a bullying awareness assembly at school, seen your favorite celeb blog about standing up to bullies, or have read about another tragic teen suicide triggered in part by bullying.  And if [...]