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College Bound Anxiety
“Where’d the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn’t stress at all just a run and a jump into a harmless fall.” ~ Paolo Nutini. Next month many thousands of students...
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The Child That Wants To Hurt Others
“The best fighter is never angry.” ~ Lao Tzu. For the therapist it is not unusual to meet children who are angry. In fact, it is not unusual to meet children who want to hurt others. They use words...
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A Love Affair With Violence
“Human beings are like parts of a body, created from the same essence. When one part is hurt and in pain, the others cannot remain in peace and be quiet. If the misery of others leaves you indifferent...
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“But Mommy You Promised You Wouldn’t Do That Again”
“At the end, all that’s left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that’s why I’ve never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that’s why I’ve hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the...
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Children And Substance Dependent Parents
“In a way, I wanted my mum to go back to prison, because she was clean (drug free) for a few weeks when she came out of prison.” ~ Child, (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction). The...
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Children, Teens, and Depression
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Depression comes in many forms. Sometimes it appears in obvious formats, such as through a sad face or...
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The Trickle-Down Effect: Children and Parent Mental Illness
“You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers, the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one who was...
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Events That Changed Your Life
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature’s delight.” ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. “To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which...
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When Children Remember 9/11/2001
“Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.” ~ Oscar Wilde. We don’t need to worry about forgetting. We have a part of the brain whose job it is to secure all information for future use.I...
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Ethics in Parenting: Justice
“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.” ~ Albert Einstein. The fourth principle...
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