Parenting

By Stephen Lyons - My work with Sara began in an uninspiring, windowless, downtown suite that she shared with another therapist. But before long, my therapy... Read more

How to use the therapeutic play zone to help young children face difficult situations. Read more

Out of all the hundreds and hundreds of articles that have appeared in the Networker over the past four decades, we’ve chosen a small sampling that captures... Read more

There’s a crucial point in the parenting life cycle that’s not often discussed in the literature. Read more

As a therapist, how do you work with conservative parents struggling to parent their trans child? Psychotherapist Jean Malpas shares three keys to acceptance. Read more

Until very recently, most families with transgender children had never met another family like theirs. Now parents and children from the trailblazing Ackerman... Read more

What parent doesn’t know the ache of helplessness that comes when you can’t do anything for your child but feel entirely responsible anyway? Read more

Family physician and psychologist Leonard Sax insists that too many parents these days misunderstand the role they should play in their children’s lives. Read more

A son remembers a distant father and the bittersweet ritual that bonded them. Read more

We've become so focused on keeping children safe that we exaggerate the dangers they face despite the fact that they’ve never been safer. Still, no amount of... Read more

A woman in a life transition takes her son on an eventful road trip. Read more

Part of the epidemic of misdiagnosed ADHD in young children today results from a failure to understand how trauma often leads to difficulty learning in school. Read more

A Bruce Springsteen song helps crack the unspoken code of father–son communication. Read more

Ron Taffel discusses how Generation X and Millennials handle authority and raising kids differently than their parents. Read more

With his son’s freedom hanging in the balance, a father must decide whether to give the gift of forgiveness one more time. Read more

In an encyclopedic new book, Andrew Solomon explores how parents and children forge emotional bonds with one another in the presence of sometimes vast inborn... Read more

In this age of helicopter parents and protective child professionals, we can often recreate a potent anxiety- reinforcing system around children that not only... Read more

A young woman confronts the myths and dilemmas of motherhood. Read more

An ailing mother and son help each other find their way back to health. Read more

The old compact between family and society—each doing its part to protect and promote the whole—seems to be badly strained, if not flat-out broken. Thus... Read more

American parents today face a perfect storm of cultural and social circumstances that undermine the very foundations of parental authority. In response... Read more

Our growing understanding of attachment and the processes that shape the parenting brain are opening new possibilities for helping stressed-out parents who are... Read more

Traditional approaches to helping parents too often fail to address their profound sense of disempowerment and frustration. It’s time to find new ways to... Read more

Helping Fathers and Daughters Connect Read more

Saturday Night Fever comes to the bar mitzvah. Read more

In every love relationship, there are words that best remain unspoken. Read more

There's no substitute for a clear clinical model that can guide you through the therapeutic change process. Read more

While therapists may consider some intuitively appealing ideas about human development---like attachment theory---beyond dispute, the researcher's job is to... Read more

A mother deals with the news that her child will have a lifelong impairment. Read more

Fond memories of an old-fashioned father who believed in practicing tough love with his fists. Read more