Even the healthiest families face stressors in everyday living, so Family & Children’s Center has partnered with regional publications to offer a series of articles from our expert therapists on some of the more common challenges families today meet.

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Parenting

No One Likes a Tattletale

by Diane Walker, MS, M.Ed., LPC, NCC, GCC, Family & Children's Center Therapist If you’ve ever spent any significant time around children, you know of their inclination to tattle on friends’ and siblings’ misdeeds. Some children even tattle on o...

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Keep Birth Order in Perspective

by Mary Cortesi, MSW, LICSW, Family & Children's Center Therapist Birth order is one of those interesting but gray areas in the study of human behavior where nature and nurture collide, and the temptation to explain rather than address can be co...

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Posted in: Parenting, Family

Girls’ Self Image Begins with Their Mothers

by Diane Walker, MS, M.Ed., LPC, NCC, GCC, Family & Children's Center Therapist If you’re a mom who’d like your daughter to survive adolescence with a healthy body image, the best place to begin is with yourself. A healthy body image is critica...

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Summer Brain Drain May Be a Misnomer

by Paul Deutsch, LPC, RADC, Family & Children's Center Therapist Experts often say school kids lose one to two months of reading and math skills over summer months, and teachers, consequently, spend the first month of school restoring what’s bee...

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