Category: Parenting/Co-Parenting

What Good Parenting Looks Like

Child Therapist Gives Gorgeous Explanation of What Good Parenting Looks Like

 “Deep breaths, you’re doing a good job.”

5/23/2017

By Caroline Bologna, Parents Editor, HuffPost

At Huffingtonpost.com

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/child-therapist-gives-gorgeous-explanation-of-what-good-parenting-looks-like_us_592444b3e4b034684b0ff40f?utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&utm_source=women_fb&utm_medium=facebook&section=women&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000046

Still Face Experiment

Still Face Experiment: Dr. Edward Tronick

UMass Boston

https://youtu.be/apzXGEbZht0

Uploaded on Nov 30, 2009

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Ed Tronick (http://www.umb.edu/Why_UMass/Ed_Tronick), director of UMass Boston’s Infant-Parent Mental Health Program (http://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/psyc…) and Distinguished Professor of Psychology, discusses the cognitive abilities of infants to read and react to their social surroundings. The video is an excerpt from Lovett Productions’ HELPING BABIES FROM THE BENCH: USING THE SCIENCE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD IN COURT.

Using the “Still Face” Experiment, in which a mother denies her baby attention for a short period of time, Tronick describes how prolonged lack of attention can move an infant from good socialization, to periods of bad but repairable socialization. In “ugly” situations the child does not receive any chance to return to the good, and may become stuck.

For more information about Infant-Parent Mental Health, visit http://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/psyc…

To hear about Ed Tronick’s latest work, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmE3Nf…

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Forget Co-Parenting with a Narcissist. Do This Instead

Forget Co-Parenting with a Narcissist. Do This Instead.

How to establish parenting rules and peace of mind, despite a toxic ex.

Linda Esposito, LCSW, From Anxiety to Zen

Posted February 6, 2015

At PsychologyToday.com

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/anxiety-zen/201502/forget-co-parenting-narcissist-do-instead

The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain

Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, by Daniel J. Siegel, MD. (2015)

Between the ages of 12 and 24, the brain changes in important, and oftentimes maddening, ways. It’s no wonder that many parents approach their child’s adolescence with fear and trepidation. According to renowned neuropsychiatrist Daniel Siegel, however, if parents and teens can work together to form a deeper understanding of the brain science behind all the tumult, they will be able to turn conflict into connection and form a deeper understanding of one another.

In Brainstorm, Siegel illuminates how brain development impacts teenagers’ behavior and relationships. Drawing on important new research in the field of interpersonal neurobiology, he explores exciting ways in which understanding how the teenage brain functions can help parents make what is in fact an incredibly positive period of growth, change, and experimentation in their children’s lives less lonely and distressing on both sides of the generational divide.

Self Esteem: A Family Affair

Self Esteem: A Family Affair, by Jane Illsley Clarke, MA, PhD. (1998)

This book is written for parents and describes what a child needs at each age to create a healthy self-esteem. It’s good for clients to read and think about whether they received the things needed at each age, and if not, work with their therapist to help them get those things now as adults. If the client is a parent, it can also help them with parenting.