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Category Archives: Children and Adolescent Counseling

The Thin Line Between Encouragement and Pressure 

Parenting is an exciting journey that comes with its challenges. As a parent, you want the best for your child, but at the same time, you don’t want to push them too hard. That’s where the thin line between encouragement and pressure comes in. Parenting pressure can bring negative impacts on your child. According to …

Resources for Raising Successful Children

To raise well-adjusted children who grow up to be successful members of society, it’s important that we as parents provide our little ones with a stimulating environment that promotes early learning, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. For some tips and resources from Improving Lives Counseling Services that will help your little ones to learn about …

Handling Intolerance of Uncertainty

Today more than ever, people display an intolerance of uncertainty to political, religious, societal, climatical, and secular views, beliefs, and behaviors. Many in the American Psychological Association believe mass shooters and people who commit suicide suffer from an inability to tolerate not knowing, or accepting the uncertainties tomorrow might bring. Even when viewpoints and philosophies …

Preparing Your Child For Summer Camps And In-Person Learning As America Reopens

Parents nationwide are making big decisions. Some insist their child be “free from a mask mandate”, while others want both their child and teacher masked. Many want a return to full time in-person learning, while others prefer hybrid or distance learning. There is no way to know the rationale behind each parent’s plea. If grandparents …

Checking Up On Your Child’s Mental Health During The Covid-19 Pandemic

“No ones’ going to harm you – not while I’m around”. A song from the Broadway show Sweeny Todd is also a phrase parents use to help children feel safe and at ease. Ensuring a child is safe from monsters under the bed or beasts in the closet, because you are in the next room, …