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How To Land Your Kid In Therapy

By Lori Gottlieb — 2011

Why the obsession with our kids’ happiness may be dooming them to unhappy adulthoods. A therapist and mother reports.

Read on www.theatlantic.com

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Teaching Children to Calm Themselves

When Luke gets angry, he tries to remember to look at his bracelet. It reminds him of what he can do to calm himself: stop, take a deep breath, count to four, give yourself a hug and, if necessary, ask an adult for help.

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David Bornstein
2014
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The Fragile Generation

Bad policy and paranoid parenting are making kids too safe to succeed.

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Lenore Skenazy, Jonathan Haidt
2017
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By Mollycoddling Our Children, We’re Fueling Mental Illness In Teenagers

Of course we want to keep children safe. But exposure to normal stresses and strains is vital for their future wellbeing.

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Jonathan Haidt, Pamela Paresky
2019
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The Long Shadow

If the threats we encounter are extreme, persistent, or frequent, we become too sensitized, overreacting to minor challenges and sometimes experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

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Jeanne Supin
2016
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The Drama of the Gifted Child

The wisdom that Alice Miller shares with us in her famous book, The Drama of the Gifted Child, is something that every therapist who works with children revisits more often than we would like.

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Marilyn Wedge
2012
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