It’s been a big week for family relationships in Mental Health this week as we looked at further ways of setting healthy limits for your children in Setting Healthy Boundaries for Your Children (3) and Setting Healthy Boundaries for Your Children (4).
These two blogs complement the first to in this series when we talked about how it is important for parents to teach their children that they can, in fact, deal very well with the word “No”. In fact, it is imperative to their future health and happiness that they do learn how to deal maturely with the N-word.
Further on the subject of parent-child relationships we looked at the special bond between mothers and daughters and how that bond can be stretched to its elastic limit when puberty looms. In the series on Walking the Mother-Daughter Tightrope, we looked at ways to keep the lines of communication open when adolescence hits. This is a four-part series that will help mothers in particular deal with the difficulties presenting by their part-child/part-adult daughter as they strive towards autonomy from you.
In a more general sense, we also looked at a helpful way to better talk to your teen when difficult times inevitably occur. In Having Trouble Talking to Your Teen: Try the Car we looked at how the family car can play an important role in better relations with your teenage children.
And as this week included Mother’s Day, there is a special blog on Celebrating Mother’s Day When You Don’t Like Your Mom. Mother’s Day can be a wonderful occasion when two, three and occasionally four generations of mothers can get together to celebrate the importance of mothers and show their appreciation for all that mothers do for their children. However, not all mothers are benign beings and this blog is for the adult children of genuinely harmful mothers.
Finally, we looked at the effect of noise on our stress levels in The Stress of Constant Noise. As most of us live and work in urban centers we have got used to relatively high levels of noise in our lives. But just because we are used to noise, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t affect us in negative ways. There are tipos too for controlling th e noise levels in your life in associated articles.
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