Intensive Marriage Therapy
Question: My husband lets our 10-year-old son do whatever he wants. My husband picks up after him and doesn’t ask him to do any chores. And my son just sits and plays video games. When I try to coax our son into helping out, I get back talk, and my husband doesn’t support me. I’m at the end of my rope. Do you have any suggestions?
Question: I had an eating disorder growing up. Now that I have two young daughters, I want to do whatever I can to prevent that. Do you have any suggestions?
Question: I recently checked the Internet browser history on my 12-year-old son’s computer, and he has been looking at pornography. How should I talk to him about this? I’m worried if he finds out I’ve been snooping, he won’t trust me anymore and start to keep other things secret.
Cindy could not find her four year old son. She looked all through the house and then the yard, but couldn’t find him anywhere. Desperate, she ran out into the street and looked up and down the road. There was her sweet son, sitting at the corner playing with his stick in the dirt. Yanking him back to the house, she yelled, “Haven’t I told you not to go to the corner?”
The next day she found him there again. This time she spanked him and sent him to his room saying, “I have told you not to go to the corner! You’ll spend the rest of the day in your room!”Continue Reading
In a recent interview with Mashable, I talk about many of the challenges that busy families and couples face. Finding work-life balance is necessary for both family harmony and job satisfaction. Demanding careers often lead to burnout if steps are not taken early on to avoid it.
It’s the end of the workday. You rush to finish a few emails, dash down to the car, pick up a child from soccer practice, and stop by the grocery store to get the missing dinner ingredient your spouse texted about. When you walk in the door, there is dinner to prepare, homework to help with, kids to play with, and a little yard or housework to attend to. You check your email on your phone, hurry dawdling kids into bed, and sit down to get a little more work done before you call your brother on the opposite coast. Then, maybe take a little time to read a few book chapters on your tablet. By ten or eleven, you’re turning out the light, mentally reviewing a checklist of things you must do tomorrow as you ready yourself to start it all again in the morning before the house wakes up.
