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Ask a Therapist: Our Child is Stealing, What Should We Do?

By Frum Therapist
Dear Therapist: Our 11-year-old son has been stealing things from his friends in school. We keep finding things in his room that we know ...

Teasing Isn't Funny

By Frum Therapist
By Sara Teichman, PsyD Dear Dr. T., My eleven year old worries me because he seems so overly sensitive to teasing that he actuall...

Peer Pressure in Adolescents

By Frum Therapist
Dear Therapist: I am very concerned about the group of friends that my 14-year-old son has chosen. He has changed a lot for the worse sin...

The Making of a Model

By Frum Therapist
Healthy parents want their children to surpass them.  Biologically we are primed to take this evolutionary initiative to strengthen our...

Bag of Tricks

By Frum Therapist
By Sara Teichman, Psy.D. Are your children basically good kids who happen to drive you crazy when...

Why Children Misbehave

By Frum Therapist
Do you find yourself embarrassed sometimes by your children’s behavior? Have you managed, by d...

Analyze Whom?

By Rabbi Yitzchak Shmuel Ackerman, LMHC
Kids are not the ones who necessarily need to sit down with a therapist.  When parents gain the...

Better Than Your Parents?

By Frum Therapist
By Esther Goldstein The line is thin. The line of appreciating your parents for who they ...

Disappointment

By Rabbi Yitzchak Shmuel Ackerman, LMHC
You have no reason to be disappointed. I hope you have never said that to your child. Even if ...

Single Parent Stresses

By Frum Therapist
Question: I am a thirty five year old woman, recently divorced. All the Rabbonim who I consulted ...

Extract the Accurate

By Rabbi Yitzchak Shmuel Ackerman, LMHC
Siblings are acutely aware of one another’s achievements.  They tend to be more vocal whe...

Why is Parenting so Difficult?

By Rabbi Yitzchak Shmuel Ackerman, LMHC
That was the question the mother of a teenager asked me last month. I’ve heard that sentiment ...