This guest post by Barbara Boucher, PhD, a child development specialist is in response to my previous post What Makes a Good Parent?, a post I give her both credit and blame (teasing, Barbara!) for due to questions she posed in comments on another post here. Good parenting, specifically the …
Know a good parent? Forget the mom who makes the circus animal cupcakes or gladly drives her kid and 5 others or who just got another kid into a gifted and talented slot. Think of the mom or dad with the children you’d welcome into your home any time with or without a chaperon or a runny nose. You can thank our friend psychologist Barbara Boucher, Ph.D., for starting …
A parenting book that actually might positively impact your child’s life? Although this space is generally reserved for the books, articles, official recommendations, etc. that might screw up your life and your kid here’s one potentially bright and shiny opportunity for optimism (at least if you take her advice) thanks to one busy and one hope’s wise clinical psychologist attending to …