What to Do If Your Teen Refuses to Go to Counseling
Some teens are happy to go to therapy. They enjoy talking to an objective adult who can assist with some of their problems. But not all teens are on board with therapy, and convincing a reluctant teen to go to Read more >>
Strategies for When Your Child Doesn’t Want to Go to Therapy
People of all ages may benefit from seeing a mental health professional. However, children may feel afraid to talk with someone they don’t know. They may also be wary of something they don’t fully understand. You may ask yourself: How Read more >>
Building Resilience – Voices of Compassion Podcast
One of the most important things we can do for our children is to help them develop resilience. A common misconception is that people are either resilient or not; that we’re born one way or the other. In fact, the Read more >>
Resilience Booster: Parent Tip Tool
There is a large body of research supporting the importance of building resilience to help prevent negative consequences of environmental stressors. Without resilience, children are at risk for poor outcomes in the following areas: Cognitive Emotional Physical Social Delayed Language Read more >>
How Parents Can Help Kids Overcome Five Common Friendship Hurdles
You can’t choose your children’s friends, but here’s how you can help them manage five frustrating friendship pitfalls. Read more >>
Fear Of Never Moving Out: Five Ways Parents Can Encourage Young Adults’ Career Success
You’re all set to turn your recent grad’s bedroom into a home office and get your laptop off the kitchen table, but there’s no sign that she and her Coachella posters are in a hurry to move out. Or, maybe Read more >>
Launching Late: How to Help Your Child with Failure to Launch
“Failure to launch” has been used recently to describe grown children who, for one reason or another, aren’t willing or able to leave their family home to pursue their own goals, lead independent lives and become self-sufficient. Read more >>
Parenting a Young Child with Autism – Voices of Compassion Podcast
Autism can present in many different ways, but at its core it’s about social communication. Autism is usually suspected at a young age because children aren’t developing language or social skills at the same rate as their peers. Sometimes parents Read more >>
Autism Resources from Sesame Workshop [web resource]
Explore Sesame Workshop’s free, bilingual resources to help support the autistic children in your life. Read more >>
Nine Tips for Talking With Kids About Trauma
As much as we might want to, we can’t always protect children from witnessing violence and tragedy in the world, whether it’s mass shootings, terrorist attacks, or war. As parents, teachers, and other supportive adults, what we can do is Read more >>
