by DrDeb Hirschhorn | May 2, 2016 | Parenting
Ettie could not believe her eyes or her ears. As she walked into her eight-year old daughter’s room, her mother was telling Beth, her daughter, “You don’t have to listen to mommy; you can stay up because I’m visiting.” Beth was a good...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Apr 11, 2016 | Parenting
My school-age grandson was filled with the importance of the story he was telling me. He paused as someone flew a paper airplane over our heads and their mother had to put a stop to that. She made a remark; I made another one back, and before you knew it, my...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Jan 21, 2016 | Parenting
I was rereading a therapy magazine from 1999 — so the problems were full-blown even back then– and it related the following: In a difference of opinion between a child and her mother who wanted the TV shut off, as the mother’s demand became stronger,...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Nov 12, 2013 | Parenting
Here are my 5 tips for parents to get kids not only to do their homework but get into the homework-doing mood. Tip #1: Homework Should Fit The Goldilocks Principle Goldilocks had it right: whether it’s porridge or homework, the best is the one that is not at...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Aug 14, 2013 | Parenting
Eli is quite clear that he is a pretty important person. At six and the youngest of four, he’s used to those around him just stopping short of bowing down to him. Answering his every wish goes without saying. When he was two and oh-so-cute, he was irresistible. Now...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Jun 3, 2013 | Parenting
My youngest son, when he was still living with us, shocked me by saying that there were no family dinners during the week in the years he was growing up. Here I was, the mommy-cook to end all mommy-cooks, the person who would experiment with various recipes multiple...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | May 21, 2013 | Parenting
Regarding the horrible revelation in Cleveland in May, 2013 when 3 women who had been held captive for ten years were rescued, several news outlets reviewed how the missing-persons list works. “Hundreds of thousands of people are reported missing each year,” the Wall...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Apr 29, 2013 | Parenting
Research shows that low self-esteem is associated with depression in adolescents and lower achievement in school. How can parents help their children to build healthy self esteem? High self-esteem can be dangerous One would think that it is obvious that children...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Dec 24, 2012 | Parenting
On September 11, 2001, I got a call from my daughter, concerned about a plane that seemed to have gone astray into the World Trade Center. Within a short while we all learned that the news was about a planned attack. The inexplicable. How do we explain this to our...
