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Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Articles, Parental Stress, Parenting
As parents, we do our best to shield our children from life’s challenges and create stable, nurturing environments where they can thrive. However, one factor many parents underestimate is how their own stress levels directly impact their children’s mental and emotional wellbeing. Research consistently shows that children are remarkably attuned to their parents’ emotional states. …
Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Parenting
For women, their spouses and partners, and immediate and extended family, the loss of a pregnancy due to miscarriage, stillbirth, or other complications, as well as the loss of an infant to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), can have profound physical and psychological effects. Pregnancy alone can evoke a wide range of psychological responses, both …
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Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Mental Health, Parenting
As Halloween approaches, parents across the country are rushing out to find the perfect costume for their child. Although the Cartoon Network licensed costumes are some of the more popular ones, vampires, witches, monsters, Power Rangers, Superman, Spider Man, and ghosts make this year’s list. Selecting the perfect costume can be a fun family event, …
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Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Children and Adolescent Counseling, Parenting
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 …
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Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Parenting
Parenting adolescents, teens, and young adults in the 21st century has its challenges from academia, smoking, drinking, drugs, bullying, and peer pressure to distance learning, living conditions, environment, and social media. Parents want to know, how much parenting is too much parenting, if they’re pushing too hard or not pushing hard enough, if it’s time …
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