Parenting
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Michael Schreiner | August 28, 2016
Adaptive Parenting
Parents who have an inkling that they’re creating unhealthy environmental conditions for their developing children are likely to...
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Michael Schreiner | August 24, 2016
Empty Nest
The empty nest syndrome is really a problem of meaning. People tell themselves that they’re feeling weird because...
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Michael Schreiner | May 17, 2016
Authoritarian And Permissive Parenting Styles
An adult with an authoritarian parenting style observes some kids running wild throughout the day while the primary...
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Michael Schreiner | February 4, 2016
Helicopter Parenting And Watering Plants
There’s more than one way to kill a plant. We all know that not paying enough attention does...
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Michael Schreiner | January 6, 2016
Kids Don’t Differentiate Between Positive Attention And Negative Attention
If you have one problem child while the rest of your kids are pretty well behaved it’s time...
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Michael Schreiner | January 4, 2016
Parenting Your Kids Using Behavioral Psychology
If you feel raw about receiving parenting advice you can at least in part thank the societal expectation,...
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Michael Schreiner | November 25, 2015
The Toll Of Abandonment
We’ve written a lot about the severe psychological toll of abandonment. From our psychoanalytic point of view, the...
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Michael Schreiner | August 10, 2015
Example Of Scaffolding
We recently wrote an article about the power of scaffolding and want to elaborate on it with a...
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Michael Schreiner | August 4, 2015
Scaffolding
When following some new pursuit most people start out with high hopes, confident that with enough time and...
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Michael Schreiner | June 22, 2015
Using Extinction To Stop Unwanted Behaviors
If you want to elicit a certain behavior you use positive or negative reinforcements, along with shaping, to...