BY Dr. bert pitts Summer is a time for you and your children to have fun and enjoy more time together than you can during the school year. It is wonderful “down time,” where we can rest, romp, relax, and recharge. Ask any teacher—it is also a time that children lose a lot of what they […]
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BY DR. CHRIS LITTON Your son or daughter comes home after school and tells you that the other kids are “being mean.” You listen in horror as they tell you stories of cruelty and abuse. You may have given your child ideas to ignore the bullying, walk away, report it to a teacher or counselor, but
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Most of us don’t neglect our children…we neglect our marriages. And in doing so, we actually give our kids a much worse deal (divorce). Indeed, one of the most robust statistics in all social science is that well-known horror that since 1970, one-half of all new marriages end in divorce…and for second marriages and beyond,
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As summer has wound down and children are off to college for the first or last time, many parents will experience “empty nest syndrome.” Realistic expectations for this transition are helpful to the child and parent alike. The separation adjustment itself may not be as intense as it once was before cell phones and the
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by Fred Davis, LPC (Intro by Dr. Bert Pitts) A friend of mine from Jackson, Mississippi who attended the First Baptist Church there relocated to Birmingham. She shared with me the following jewel of a parenting article from a local newspaper. Reader be warned: Mr. Davis has no goal of writing a “feel-good” article or
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