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What is a Healthy Teenager?

What is a Healthy Teenager?

Home What is a Healthy Teenager? What makes a healthy teenager? – NOT an easy question to answer, but here’s my best attempt… The Healthy Teenager… Has been a happy child Has access to at least one healthy, well-adjusted parent Has available...
The Formula for a Happy Child

The Formula for a Happy Child

Home The Formula for a Happy Child What makes a happy child? This is my favorite question to answer for several reasons… I am a grandpa who loves to make kids happy It’s the most important question – kids are our future Happy kids grow up to be happy...
The Formula for a Happy Child

The Five Drivers & The Safety Net

Home The Five Drivers & The Safety Net The Five Drivers, play a big role in the development of the invented self and managing the impressions of others. The first five counter-injunctions listed below are known in TA as The Five Drivers because they...
Fear of Abandonment & the Inner Child

Fear of Abandonment & the Inner Child

Home Fear of Abandonment & the Inner Child Fear of abandonment is almost always a direct result of feeling or being abandoned at some point in childhood. This real or perceived abandonment is traumatic to children causing fragmentations of the Self. The study of...
What is a Healthy Teenager?

What is a Dysfunctional Family?

Home What is a Dysfunctional Family? A dysfunctional family is a family that does not function in a way that meets the needs of it’s members. It is important to point out that no family functions perfectly all the time, just as no family is dysfunctional all the...