Results for Special Occasions

The holidays should be a joyous time of year for everyone. However, the holiday season—the time between Halloween and New Year's Day—is often a challenging time for children who have suffered a loss in their life. School counseling expert Bonnie Rubenstein, EdD, offers tips to parents and school teachers to help children cope with grief and loss around the holidays and special occasions, like Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, and to help them through the healing process.

With just a few weeks left to the 2013 holiday season, there may be a few more special occasions for families who have a loved one living with dementia to gather together. We’ve discovered a list o…

Parents demand their children eat spinach at dinner in hopes that they’ll form healthy eating habits by adulthood. Parents teach their kids to dress up for special occasions so they’ll [...]

The holidays are upon us and don’t we love them? Food, family, and fun, right? Every year we gather together for what we hope will be a joyful occasion. But wait. If we’re honest, there’s plenty of stress and tension, too. There’s always the mom who has too much wine or the uncle who has …

Since we have been under “shelter-in-place” orders due to the COVID-19 crisis and schools have been forced to transition to distance teaching and learning, the phrase “new normal” has been applied to many different scenarios. But is this really what we want school to look like moving forward
I want to make clear that I am not against using technology as a means of educating our children and I am not insinuating that we stop learning how to use and maximize technology. In…