TMB Episode 54: From Failure to Success
Leicester City Football Club – and professional soccer team in England – is beating the odds. Sitting in first place in the league, if they end the season on top of the league tables, they will have overcome 5000 to 1 odds! According to ESPN, those are the same odds as Kim Kardashian being elected president of the United States in 2020. Read More
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Paedeia Episode 19: The Big Disconnect
Though we would like to think of systems as being well-oiled machines, where each part integrates and works well with every other part, that is not always the case. This is especially true in education, where there seems to be a tremendous gulf between the beliefs and expectations of administrators – many of whom are not educators – and teachers/students. In this podcast, Dr. Richard and Dr. Berney talk about this big disconnect and emphasize that there are options, despite the “company line” suggesting that it is “someone else’s fault.” Read More
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Resource 7: Balancing Control and Reactivity
As I mentioned in Wednesday’s blog, the past few weeks have been dedicated to performing the final review and edits to Part One of the revised Handbook for Raising an Emotionally Healthy Child, which will be available as a Kindle e-book on May 9, 2016. The revisions are really coming together very well and we believe that the information will help parents find more joy and pleasure in their task of being a parent. Read More
Raising an Emotionally Healthy Child – Part One
It has been a while since I offered an update on some of the things we have in the works. So I thought I would take the opportunity in this mid-week post to catch you up a bit. Read More
Just Keep Swimming
Blue Fish
by Tony Hisgett
There are dozens, if not hundreds of popular quotes that encourage us to persevere. To show persistence and tenacity. Whether you want to go old school – Read More
Paedeia Episode 18: Motivation
A characteristic many parents and teachers struggle to create in students is motivation. Where does motivation come from? How do we foster motivation? Why do some have it and others don’t? What are we doing that could be sabotaging motivation? These questions and others are addressed by Dr. Richard and Dr. Berney in this podcast.
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TMB Episode 53: Self-Harming Behaviors
Though they have been around for decades, self-harming behaviors continue to increase in prevalence. Social media and other pop culture references have made this maladaptive coping mechanism mainstream.
In this podcast, Dr. Berney and Dr. Richard discuss the reasons why teens and young adults self-harm. They also review the theoretical underpinnings for its use as well as offer details as to what parents should do if they discover their teen is engaging in cutting or other self-injurious behavior.
Additional information and resources can be found in this blog post from 4/22/2016 at The Mental Breakdown.
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Self-Harming Behaviors and Teenagers
Reflected Sadness
By: Victor Bezukov
Self-harming behaviors have garnered a great deal of attention over the past few years. While the prevalence of intentional self-harm – the most common of which include cutting and burning – continue to rise, it is difficult to truly understand the rationale for these behaviors. Nonetheless, it has become somewhat of an “en vogue” coping strategy many teenagers are using to deal with depression and heightened emotionality.
Cutting has reached the mainstream media. Read More
My Father’s Death: A Year Later
In memory of Rodney “Grampy” Wilkinson
Today marks the one year anniversary of my father’s death. For those of you who follow my column in The Ledger, you may recall the piece I wrote at the time entitled “When You Have To Let It Be” (you can read the column here).
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Monday Morning Quarterbacks and Other Critics
Eugene Delacroix’s “Fanatics of Tangier”
Public Domain due to age.
Yesterday, my son and I went to a soccer match to watch our favorite MLS team. It has been a while since we have been to a match, but we quickly got back in to the routine of cheering for our team. As we sat there, though, listening to the others sitting around us, I could not help but wonder if they were fans or critics. Read More