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Is Your Parenting Style Hurting Your Child’s Long-Term Mental Health?

by GHTAdmin | Oct 4, 2016 | Parenting

You’re a loving parent. You want what’s best for your kids. But how do you determine what that is? Is it based on what you know about your kid’s strengths and talents, and what you believe they would be good at? Is what you want for them, rather than what they want...

How to Show Compassion without Enabling

by GHTAdmin | Sep 12, 2016 | Parenting, Relationships

If I had to guess, I’d say most of us genuinely want to help others. There are times when, for whatever reason, someone just pulls on your heartstrings and you feel overwhelming compassion and an unshakeable desire to help. That’s one of the many beautiful qualities...

What Makes People ‘Highly Successful’, and Can It Be Learned?

by GHTAdmin | Oct 6, 2015 | Parenting, Women in the Workforce

As parents, one of our greatest wishes for our children is that they become successful adults. Most of us have very high hopes for our children, believing wholeheartedly in their exceptionality and ability to do and become anything their precocious little minds can...

What Happens When a Mom Calls Herself Fat

by GHTAdmin | Jul 21, 2015 | Eating Disorders, Girls' Issues, Nutrition, Parenting

Before you do anything else, take a minute and read this letter from a daughter to her mom about what happens to a girl when Mom calls herself fat and ugly. Heartbreaking, right? Perhaps you can relate. It’s not unusual for a little girl to think her mom is the most...

How Perfect is Your (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) Life?

by GHTAdmin | Jun 11, 2015 | Girls' Issues, Parenting

Had you looked at her Instagram account, you would have seen a happy, well-adjusted, thoughtful young woman who lived life to the fullest. Madison Holleran was a 19-year old student-athlete at the University of Pennsylvania and seemed to have it all. Beautiful,...

Why does Parenting Cause So Much Anxiety?

by GHTAdmin | Apr 15, 2015 | Family, Parenting

Last year, Jennifer Senior, contributing editor at New York Magazine, spoke at a TED talk on the topic of “Why is parenthood filled with so much anxiety?” You can watch her TED Talk here (it’s worth it): Why does parenting cause so much anxiety?...