by aastaff | Dec 16, 2015 | Parenting Advice, Personal Insight
A year ago today our daughter enrolled at Alpine. It is a day that is still hard for us to think about — we left our fragile, hurting daughter with a group of total strangers, hoping that they could give her the help she so desperately needed. Talk about a leap...
by Pegeen | Oct 22, 2015 | Parenting Advice, Personal Insight
So I teach at risk girls math at a residential treatment center. Tonight was parent conference night. Six hours of talking to parents. The parents of girls who had made bad choices, wreaked havoc in the home, betrayed trust, put themselves and perhaps their families...
by Jeff | May 27, 2015 | Parenting Advice
In To Kill A Mocking Bird Atticus Finch says, “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no...
by Michele | May 20, 2015 | Parenting Advice
Raising children is a lifelong commitment my mom told me. I contradicted. You mean until they are 18. No, sweetie. Lifelong she gently restated. With that smile of hers. (Still to date the best-smile-ever. Most genuine, loving, real and struck-by-lightening smile.) I...
by Dustin | May 14, 2015 | Parenting Advice
One of my passions outside of therapy is working with trees. While I was attending the University I remember walking from class to class picking up seeds and learning how to grown them myself. Now getting a tree to grow isn’t as simple as placing a seed in the ground...
by aastaff | May 24, 2014 | Parenting Advice
Having a son would be so much easier than having a daughter, right? I mean, really, how many of us men actually know how to put our daughter’s hair into a pony tail, how to paint nails, or what color of shirt can only go with which pair of pants? And that’s just the...
