Average: Your rating: None It’s helpful to trace and understand the origin of the two words. For a more elaborate explanation, read this article, empathy vs sympathy. I’ll summarize here. Empathy was brought into the English language from the German word Both are acts of feeling. With sympathy, you feel FOR the person. You may...
Average: Your rating: None The truth about what exactly is ADD can be confusing. There are many interpretations out there each claiming to be the right one. ADD is a disability. ADD is a brain type. ADD is an executive function disorder. So how does one navigate the confusing waters of these competing definitions? How...
Average: Your rating: None The following case-study about how to deal with an emotional abuser demonstrates what can be achieved by practicing the simple self-help practice higher-consciousness healing as described in Tara’s book The Five-Minute Miracle. Heidi (42 years) is a highly educated woman who came to see me because she felt very unhappy in...
Average: Your rating: None The following case-study about how to deal with emotional bullying demonstrates what can be achieved by practicing the simple self-help practice higher-consciousness healing. Charlotte (55 years) came to see me because she was stressed in her job as a teacher in a deprived school where she was experiencing constant emotional bullying...
Is Child & Teen Stress Out of Control? According to the American Psychological Association, 2009 survey, stress among teens and their parents is rising significantly every year. Stress in children is being reported more often by school counselors, social workers and psychologists. Adolescent psychologists report that many parents who are seeking professional help have to...
Average: Your rating: None Why is the drinking age set at 21? This question is usually asked by the minor who wants to drink or is already drinking. In working with an adolescent population, I hear the litany of justifications that youth have for drinking underage and why they feel the laws are unjust. The...
Average: Your rating: None Parents are being urged to get their preteen vaccinated this week, February 13-19, for diseases commonly spread amongst the age group: meningococcal menigitis and other bacterial diseases that can kill a healthy young person. County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) and other local health officials in California are encouraging parents...
In the United States, the number of overweight children and adolescents has doubled in the last three decades. Our children are eating more, exercising less and their self-esteem is suffering. The following article is not one of statistics, but one that may help you, the parent, begin to become concerned about your child becoming fat....
Teen depression is on the rise and is also one of the leading causes of teen problems today. Some teen depression appears as anger, moodiness and/or prolonged sadness. Many teens who are depressed begin to look toward mood altering chemicals found in alcohol and other drugs. The following article will help you, the parent reader,...
Simple Solutions To Bring About Education Change In America It goes unsaid that many Americans are concerns about what is going on in America’s schools in light of the teacher walk outs in Wisconsin, the reaction to Governor Walker’s education and pension proposals and the large percentage of tax dollars that it takes to manage this...
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