Counseling for New Fathers
I was really fortunate to be a part of Jessica Fowler’s monthly post What Your Therapists are Reading. Jessica is a therapist in Rochester, NY who, among working with a variety of individual clients also runs a Mommy’s Time Out Support group. My entry on...
Counseling for New Fathers
I’m very excited that Alexa Brett agreed to write a guest post this week. She is an Occupational Therapy Practitioner and I’ve been reading her blog, www.LoveThinkThrive.com, for a while now. In this post she talks about two senses that we don’t...
Counseling for New Fathers
Have you thought about what kind of dad you’d like to be? Or the basic 21st century question: What IS the dad’s role in raising a child these days? Many fathers don’t know this (or even realized they didn’t know this) when they are starting...
Counseling for New Fathers
The first thing to know about temperament is that it’s spelled with an ‘a’ in the middle. I often forget that. The next thing to remember is how fascinating it is and how much it can tell you about your child. So how does temperament affect...
Counseling for New Fathers
Many of us are old enough to remember the Michael Keaton movie, Mr. Mom, from the early 80s. While easily and quickly forgotten when put up against his Beetlejuice in the category of “How To Be a Good Parent,” it’s interesting that the term, a...
