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"It is not what happened to you as a child that matters, it's how you make sense of what happened to you." Scientific research shows that how we make sense of our own pasts helps determine how we relate to our own children. Dr. Daniel Siegel explains why understanding our childhood experiences is so important in raising our kids.
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Learn helper tasks, practical steps to take when you are worried about a person who may be suicidal. These steps can help you prevent a suicide. They provide you with a strategy for serving as a lifeguard for the people in your life who may be at risk.
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The way we treat our children in moments of stress is what stays with them throughout their development. Dr. Robert Firestone explains why we "lose it" with our kids and how having compassion for ourselves can benefit us and our kids in these interactions.
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Like it or not, all parents have ambivalent feelings toward their children. Child development expert Joyce Catlett talks about where these feelings come from and how we can best deal with them in ourselves without hurting our children.
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While loving our children is healthy, dependency or "emotional hunger" toward our kids can be harmful to their development. Child development expert Joyce Catlett discusses the distinction between hunger versus love and the negative effects of over-relying on our children for our own comfort and happiness.
