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How Parents Can Get Out of the Helicopter Seat
You can't read the daily news without encountering stories of school shootings, bullying, Amber alerts for child abductions, and news...
How the Stoics Can Keep Us Calm During the Coronavirus Outbreak
As a psychiatrist, I have seen dozens of patients who suffer from Panic Disorder — a biologically-based condition that can...
How to Make Healthy Lifestyle Changes That Last
Most people are aware that making healthy lifestyle changes would be good for their long term well-being, yet doing so...
How to Shift Perspective When You’re Stuck in Your Own Way
Why We Can’t Believe Everything We Experience Sitting by the edge of the indoor pool on a winter’s day, I...
How to Tone Down Parent Conflict During Separation and Divorce to Help Your Kids Adjust
By Anita M. Schimizzi, Ph.D. Time and again, research suggests that parental conflict is a strong predictor of how children...
How to Tone Down Parent Conflict During Separation and Divorce to Help Your Kids Adjust
This makes sense, right? Children who must face ongoing fighting and conflict between their parents while they also endure all...
How to Understand and Control the Online Over Checking Habit
I know I’m addicted to what I call “Over Checking.” I also know that the more I feed this addiction,...
How Voters Psych Themselves Out and Choose the Wrong Candidate
Democrats are psyching themselves out this election season, and psychological research dating back nearly 30 years helps to explain why....
I Need a Nap!
By Anita M. Schimizzi, Ph.D. Have you had one of those days when there just wasn’t a good time to...
I Need a Nap! – Child Psychology and Parenting Blog
While sleep studies typically focus on adults, a study in the Journal of Sleep Research by Berger and colleagues looked...
It Wasn’t Me: How to Handle Your Child’s Dishonesty
By Anita M. Schimizzi, Ph.D. Awhile back, I posted about some research done on lying in children. A very brief...