by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Feb 10, 2006 | Parenting
REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION from the Florida Jewish News, pp. 15, 21. I couldn’t have been that young. Maybe I was 10 or 11 by then because we were in the new house. I would be sleeping but feel as though I were awake. I’d be looking at my room and it looked the way it...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Feb 3, 2006 | Parenting
REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION from the Florida Jewish News, pp. 15, 22. Congratulate me! I’m a grandma again. And for those of you who haven’t tried it, I recommend it. Seriously. Heck, adopt a grandchild if you have to. It’s sweet. But, I’ll tell you, I am perplexed...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Jan 6, 2006 | Parenting
REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION from the Florida Jewish News, pp. 16, 22. Screams echo down the hall. Raised voices escalate in pitch. Enough already! Get this child to school! But she won’t go. You would think that two intelligent adults could figure out how to get an...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Sep 2, 2005 | Parenting
REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION from Florida Jewish News, September 2, 2005, p. 21, 23, 27 I never liked the term, “Blended families.” It reminded me of cake batter—sweet, maybe fun to snack on when no one was looking, but, frankly, not yet a cake. After all, which is...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Feb 2, 2004 | Parenting
Picture the scene: Several 5 year olds are playing in the park. One of them thinks a toy/ball/whatever of his/hers has been unfairly taken by another. He/she starts to hit/attack the would-be thief. The parents are clustered at the edge of the play area, talking and...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Jan 5, 2004 | Parenting
Your child is not, technically, a child any more; he or she is 20, over age in a couple of states; past the age of consent in others. But he needs discipline; boy, does he. What do you do? There are two answers to this. One is: You better do it; it’s never too...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Aug 15, 2003 | Parenting
Do you have a wild child? Then this article may be for you. Do you just blow up when you can’t take it any more? Then this article is definitely for you. Abuse victims, when they become parents, are handicapped in two ways. One, they have no clue how to give...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Jun 8, 2003 | Parenting
The saddest family walked into my room not long ago. The tension in the air was so great, I could hardly breathe. The parents smiled and were quite pleasant as they addressed me and their children, so what was I picking up? The daughter, a teen, had a glum expression...
