Anger is an emotion that most of us have to deal with from time to time especially when our tweens and teens push our hot buttons. Typically when this happens our real desire is to just make the situation go away. “Why did you do that? How dare you speak to me that way! […]
Last week a friend sent me a funny picture. It was a picture of an empty glass sitting on her kitchen counter. Her comment on the photo read, “Asked my teen to get me a glass of lemonade. Guess he got it half right.” I couldn’t help but chuckle. At least she was looking at […]
The word validation has been cropping up everywhere I turn for the past two weeks. It’s something that I’ve struggled with for years. I always thought empathy and validation were essentially the same thing. I tended to be pretty good on the empathy front so I assumed that my empathy was in fact validating my […]
Cheryl was absolutely at the end of her rope with her 12 year old daughter. Where had her little girl gone? It was almost as if overnight this sweet little innocent girl had taken an obstinate “my way or the highway” stance, determined to turn the family upside down if she didn’t get her way. […]