A recent Time magazine article discusses the debate. My take is that there are wide variations in effectiveness depending upon which study you read. Depression and its treatment is a difficult illness to measure and analyze. Working closely with a therapist and doctor is someone’s best bet. I really cannot understand how one could expect …
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Internet addicted?
Teenagers are not the only ones with social networking obsessions.
Sexting
If you’ve never discussed the issue of ‘sexting’ with your teen – please do so. 20% of adolescents admit to doing it.
Erase your memory?
Wouldn’t it be something if a doctor could give you a pill to erase painful or traumatic memories, bad habits or addictions?
Autism Awareness
Today is “World Autism Awareness Day”. These parents deserve our utmost support and praise. These pervasive developmental disorders are not all severe and debilitating. Many kids have what is called Asperger’s Syndrome characterized by social difficulties, a narrow range of interests, and a lack of emotional and social reciprocity. Social skill and emotional coping therapies have helped these children significantly …
Soldier Dad
Just in case we ever wonder how really important a Daddy is to his children.
A forward email worth reading.
One of my best friends, Nathan Berry, an ophthalmologist in Burleson, passed along this email to me….YOU AND YOUR CHILDBUILDING A STRONG FOUNDATIONPresident Ronald Reagan accurately stated, “The home is the bricks and mortar of America.” The ultimate thermostat of a home is the parent. The way you and I talk to our spouses, our kids …
Sharpies!
Austin writer Maya Perez, mother of a three year old, recently shared some feelings and thoughts that most all of us have experienced at one time or another. This weekend I was tested personally when spending the day with my two year old son, Kash. As I became engrossed in SportsCenter he managed to toddle into …
Love
A great reminder by the group 33Miles that we only get just one time around.Love If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, …
“Cool” Parents
This disturbing news article could have easily been written about Coppell, Flower Mound, Southlake, Lewisville, etc. I regularly and routinely hear about such events from adolescents. Teens move from house to house on the weekends depending upon which parents are out of town or which parents will allow parties. A 2005 research study by the American Medical …