I first read David Elkind’s book, “The Hurried Child,” while in graduate school almost 25 years ago. It provided a course of treatment for me to use with families and their children. I encouraged families to relax and limit the stress that they imposed upon their kids. This stress usually took the form of over-involvement…
Lessons from my Clients Solomon (not his real name) reminded me that my efforts and the efforts of the team of people in his life are not in vain. Solomon is a 26-year old young man, who watched his mother murdered in front of him when he was around 5 years old. She was beaten…
Why You Should Still Hike in the Fall & Winter Don’t shy away from hiking with your family during the Fall and Winter months as the positives clearly outweigh the negatives: NO BUGS! NO SPIDER WEBS! Those of you that have hiked in the summer months, know the experience of having those yucky spider webs…
Meaningful Moment- Switchbacks I took three adolescent boys into the woods to train with backpacks this past weekend. It was therapeutic!!! We stopped on the trail in the Jefferson Memorial Forest and walked through a stream bed. We looked for geodes. It was three young teenagers in the woods, looking for geodes. I saw the…
