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“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” Japanese proverb Research has been clear since the early 60’s: high parental expectations on academics lead to higher achievement. We need to hold our children up to high standards, whether in academics or moral values… Furthermore kids, especially teenagers, should be busy enough so they do not get bored and start getting into trouble. When we set high standards our children perfo

One of the key aspects of making our homes a safe space for our children is to know how to handle their failures and mistakes. “Parenting is for better and for worse. Just as our children thrill us, they are bound to let us down. How we handle this task - parenting our children when they fall short, when they disappoint us, when they take us away from our warmth and love and into the darker and more unhappy feelings - is one of the greatest challenges parents face”, states Dr

There is a cross section of children who are considered ‘at-risk’ for developing mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression,...

Once our little kids become tweens and teenagers, long gone are the days where they recount every second of their school day from the...

Intelligence and Talent: Are They Nature or Nurture Based? Why are some people smarter? Better at mathematics, or literature, violin or...

“Discipline is helping a child to solve a problem. Punishment is making a child suffer for having a problem. To raise problem solvers,...

“There is only one reason a child lies to its parents: the conditions for it to feel safe have not been created.” Dr Shefali Tsabary...

In my previous newsletters I discussed disordered eating behaviors and eating disorders, what they are, their symptoms (...

In my previous newsletter ( https://www.drzeynepokurguner.com/post/tweens-and-teenagers-learning-how-to-take-care-of-themselves-disordere...