Parenting skills

Enabling children to handle pain using Tonglen and other tools It’s become increasingly clear to me that one of my primary roles as a mother is to help my kids learn how to soften their...

Are a Mom's parenting skills who shamed her daughter on a Facebook video questionable? What is an effective parental response to a 13 year old teenage girl who is using Facebook to post pictures of herself...

Don’t be fooled—not all virtue is the same There’s authentic virtue, and then there’s a kind of chronic, not-quite-credible virtue that doesn’t—and really can’t—reflect an individual’s true nature. Such a convoluted assertion might seem a little...

Has your rage been caused by hurt feelings when you were a child? It’s become increasingly common for therapists to note that underlying your anger are feelings of hurt. In fact the more pronounced your...

How narcissistic parents substitute emotional hunger for love For me, one of the best examples of narcissistic parents is illustrated in the movie “The Joy Luck Club,” based on the novel by Amy Tan. In the film,...

A first aid book for the daughters of narcissistic mothers We tend to throw around the descriptor "narcissist" when we really mean "selfish," but the term can properly refer to someone who consistently exhibits narcissistic traits as...