Faith and Family BLOG

If you are a parent, it’s inevitable that there will be a breach in relationship between you and your child, where their behavior is making it difficult for you to connect with them on the same level ...

Quite frankly, our children have a lot of issues they face daily. And they bring a lot of issues to the family. When we are trying to find the root cause of their pain, which is expressed through thei...

I don’t know anyone who likes to accept ‘no’ for an answer, do you? Even us parents get that internal churning feeling when we’re told ‘no’ about something in the grown-up world. And let’s face it, de...

Researchers are getting a handle on a big problem facing our children: fear is a huge issue for many children coming from trauma and neglect backgrounds where their needs were not met in consistent, n...

When that feeling of anxiety comes on your child (or yourself), it is because your brain is sending out signals that there is a threat and your body fuels up to respond in a fight, flight, or freeze r...

What is resilience and what contributes to it?

The word resilience started in the physical sciences as the capacity of an object to return to its original shape when stretched; think of a spring or a...