by Dr. Adams | Children/Child Rearing
Questions for children whose parents are undergoing divorce. Often judges are in a conundrum when interviewing children of divorcing parents. They seek the children’s viewpoints but often lack psychologically-aware interviewing skills. They may think they are either...
by Dr. Adams | Children/Child Rearing
Self-understanding is necessary to be a good parent. Without knowing yourself, why you behave in certain ways and your motivations, you will have no idea what you are imparting to your children.Joint custody, with shared parenting where children go back and forth...
by Dr. Adams | Children/Child Rearing, History of Emotional Conditioning
We train our dogs to sit, fetch, catch Frisbees and do other tricks. Any pet dog we raise understands our voice and hand gestures. When we head to the fridge or our dog’s food bin at a certain time of day, our dog is conditioned to anticipate being fed. His behavior...
by Dr. Adams | Children/Child Rearing, How To Understand Yourself
Currently in vogue is a type of therapy geared toward emotional regulation. Such treatment aims for management of human emotions. It has come about because of the idea that people suffer with emotional dyscontrol. Children are instructed to hit a pillow when angry or...
by Dr. Adams | Children/Child Rearing
At times, being a parent can be such a stressful, agonizing job, that we lose all perspective as to what we want to accomplish. What are the goals of childrearing? For one goal we want to create competent adults out of our children. By competent I mean adults who can...
by Dr. Adams | Children/Child Rearing
Most parents are unaware consciously and unconsciously that they create children who are like themselves or their spouses. They are also unaware that their children are as unbalanced in their personalities as they, the parents, are. Each child’s personality is set by...