Alex Sains

As a counselor, I have seen many parents run themselves ragged trying to be “The Perfect Parent” to their teenager. When their efforts fall short and the relationship with their teenager is lacking, many parents can feel frustrated and disappointed. Here are some myth busters of how to be the Perfect Parent.
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Even if you have a blog, still you need people to visit it right. It is more challenging than you think to make thousands flock everyday to read your blog especially with the millions of blogs online.  To make things even harder, blogs don’t have simple URLs or web addresses like websites. The blog URL [...]

Parenting is the toughest, most important job most people will ever encounter and yet there is no license required, no training required, and no 24/7 hotline. This is rather short-sighted on the part of society as the cost of bad parenting is immense, but in truth the situation is not as dire as it seems. [...]

Research on the internet about available parenting advice and information for parents on how to successfully rear and treat babies, children, pre-teens and adolescent teenagers, has revealed a wide and extensive database of articles and products on the subjects of successful child development, successful child rearing and successful parental influence. One can find informative [...]

Many of us are in the “Sandwich Generation.” We belong to the wonderful group of families that are still in the process of raising children and we have the added responsibility of caring for elderly parents. Most of the time this is not an issue until the subject of money or health care comes up. [...]

Enjoy them now, they’ll soon be teenagers!” Warnings like this from friends and relatives, together with media images of adolescents as irresponsible, rebellious troublemakers, can lead parents to expect trouble as their children enter puberty. Parenting teens includes many challenges as well as joys.
Even when teens start dating, they are still not as close with [...]

One of the biggest problems in the average family home in today’s time is what the kids can see on television. It can be hard to constantly monitor what they are watching while you are attempting to complete your everyday chores around the house. There are parental systems you can buy but they cost so [...]

Even though we need a license to do many things in life — everything from driving and operating a forklift to practicing medicine and fishing — there is no license required to become a parent and this is often the trickiest of all of the above activities!
Parenting today is far more difficult than it was, [...]

A lot of people believe that authoritarian parenting is the best ways to keep their children in check. According to people who subscribe to the idea of authoritarian parenting, if their children are afraid of their parents, they will tend to behave better than when the kids do not fear anybody. Yet, does fear really [...]

We of the baby-boomer generation are feeling the pressure as we provide care for our elderly parents.  It is painful as we helplessly watch our loved one’s experience the impact of failing health.  We feel powerless against the ravages of deteriorating health and mourn our losses as our parents begin the descent involving their incapacity [...]