I recently walked in on my 13½ -year old daughter doing the dishes to the tune of, “I am 13 going on 14, Fellows will fall in line ....
The depth and breadth of human suffering occasioned by the recent earthquake in Turkey is, in a word, staggering. Media reports have blamed much of the resulting devastation and...
There sure are a lot of undergraduate psychology majors around this valley. I’m struck by how many people tell me they are, once were, or seriously thought about becoming...
Eleven-year old Laura came to see me for problems related to aggressive and defiant behavior. Her mother, tapped out of ideas for helping her daughter, believed Laura’s struggles to...
A few years ago, a movie, “The Doctor,” slipped in and out of theaters without much fanfare. The thrust of the film was that even doctors become patients at...
One evening in the mid-70’s, my wife and her siblings were complaining to their father about what seemed to them to be true poverty. Noting that most of their friends had...
An 11-year old boy was in my office recently, talking about the sources of some of his frustrations. Lamenting that his dad promises to take him fishing and camping,...
Where do you draw the line with a wayward, disobedient, rebellious child? How do you respond when (s)he persistently defies the rules and expectations you’ve established? To what extent...
Returning home after an evening out together, my wife and I recently found our children putting the finishing touches on the house. Not in a messy sort of way,...
“These *#@%!! kids are going to send me over the edge! I’ve had it with them . . . they won’t leave each other alone!” Rumor has it that...