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Teach Your Teen to Set Emotional Boundaries
Four tips that will increase your child’s happiness.
By Marilyn Price-Mitchell Ph.D.
Courtesy of Psychology Today
Learning how to set and maintain emotional boundaries is an important part of growing up. It is also a key to developing relationships that are supportive, caring, and respectful. These kinds of positive relationships create the foundation for lifelong happiness.
Unfortunately, many adults have difficulty setting their own emotional boundaries, let alone teaching their children. The reasons are simple. Setting boundaries is uncomfortable, forces us to speak for ourselves, and seldom results in a “thank you” from others. Yet, it is one of the […]
How Using Social Media Affects Teenagers
Experts say kids are growing up with more anxiety and less self-esteem.
By Rachel Ehmke
Courtesy of Child Mind
Many parents worry about how exposure to technology might affect toddlers developmentally. We know our preschoolers are picking up new social and cognitive skills at a stunning pace, and we don’t want hours spent glued to an iPad to impede that. But adolescence is an equally important period of rapid development, and too few of us are paying attention to how our teenagers’ use of technology—much more intense and intimate than a 3-year-old playing with dad’s iPhone—is affecting them. In […]