Perspective Taking

Perspective Taking

A parent may notice that her kind and friendly child has no idea how to react when another child is crying. Maybe your child ignores a crying peer. Perhaps he gets angry and bothered by the noise or he gets incredibly upset himself, having a huge overreaction to...
Insight

Insight

Insight is a powerful thing. Understanding yourself is important as you develop from a young child to an adult. Some children, adolescents and adults struggle to have insight or understanding into who they are personally, emotionally and in a relationship. Parents of...
Empathy

Empathy

Children who have difficulty being part of a back-and-forth conversation may be having difficulty with emotional awareness and emotional reciprocity. Emotional awareness and reciprocity means knowing your own feelings about a topic, being able to read other’s...
Intimacy in Relationships

Intimacy in Relationships

Your child may be having difficulty developing intimate relationships, meaning close ties with others that go beyond just casual encounters in the cafeteria or being on the same baseball team. An underlying contributor here is likely poor emotional awareness and...
Gender Identity & Sexual Orientation

Gender Identity & Sexual Orientation

A person’s identity is an important part of development. Identity contributes to self-esteem, to visualizing one’s place in the world and to seeing one’s self as different from our parents. Identity begins to emerge very young but is an important component of...

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