While you are locked up with your teenager day after day after day after day after day (after day), you can run out of things to occupy your time. Could there be a more perfect solution than family movie night?! But what movies are both entertaining and yet provide an opportunity for you to discuss important issues with your child. …
Parenting In The Time of COVID-19: Specific Questions Kids May Have about the Virus
This blog has some questions kids may ask about COVID-19. These blogs have been written with Stacy Jagger, LMFT, RPT-S to provide information and suggestions about parenting through the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a follow-up to the talking with kids column focusing on talking to teens about the same issues. You can find the original column here. Once you have …
And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them and the glory of the Lord shone round about them (Luke 2:9)
The winter sky is a beautiful sight to behold. And one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year occurs in December. When the Earth passes through the debris trail from the Phaethon asteroid, as many as 120 meteors per hour can be observed streaking across the sky. This year, the peak time for observing this beautiful event will …
Protective Factors for Teenage Alcohol and Drug Use
There are a range of factors that research on adolescent alcohol and drug use have shown are associated with lowering the risk of abuse or addiction. The more of these you incorporate into your parenting, family and kid’s life, the less likely your kid will end up with alcohol or drug use problems. Alcohol and drug free household. If you …
Sexual Assault & Teenagers: An Exercise for Parents and Teens
This document contains a series of questions and answers parents can use to review important aspects of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape. It is intended to be a catalyst for parents to introduce this important topic to their teens and to start a discussion that hopefully will continue past the end of the exercise. The information in this exercise …
Family Time Movie Theater: 13 Reasons Why
Drama: This video series, based on a best-selling teen novel, is the story of a 17 year old girl who commits suicide and leaves 13 tapes for each of the people who contributed to her decision to commit suicide. There are 13 episodes, one for each tape. Everyone is talking about this series; kids because they love it, adults because they …
Wizard World Comic Con Nashville
Now that school has started and you have probably assumed your traditional parent role as homework witch or grade troll, why not take the family to the place where other witches and trolls (and super heros and TV characters) congregate. Wizard World Comic Con Nashville will be here September 8-10. It is a wild event where people of all ages …
Family Time Movie Theater: Girls Who Are Tough, Boys Who Are Sensitive
Movies are notorious for promoting stereotypic views of masculinity and femininity. How about settling down with your kids to watch some movies that go against gender stereotypes (and encourage more well rounded expressions of maleness and femaleness). Spider Man 3 (PG-13) Feminine Masculine. All of the spider man movies feature a hero that is moral, sensitive, gentle and a bit …
Family Time Movie Theater: Resilience
Take a look at these movies to watch with your kid that show boys and girls who demonstrate tenacity and determination when life tries to keep them down. Rudy (PG) A young man pursues his dream formed at the age of ten to play football for Notre Dame despite being small and having little real ability. Never say quit! Great …
Family Time Movie Theater: Problem Solving, Adaptability & Initiative
Why not sit down with the kids and watch some movies that demonstrate 21st century work skills? These movies provide some examples of problem solving, adaptability and initiative. Where the Red Fern Grows (PG) It is a hard life growing up in the back woods. Billy scrimps and saves to buy a pair of hunting dogs who brighten the lives …