Does having Children really ruin a Marriage?
All of the research suggests that couples have a decrease in happiness after having children… What are the main reasons? Extreme...
Barbara Harcavi
Parenting Coach & Couples Counselor
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Children see, Children do
Don't tell your children to be polite – Show them how you speak kindly to others. Don’t tell your children to share – Make sure they see...
Rewards are the same as Punishments
How do I teach my child to not hit his little brother, to tidy up after she made a mess, to speak respectfully, to just listen to me, to...
Tantrums
We all know those challenging moments we say “no” to our child, or things don’t exactly turn out like she/he had in mind, and here starts...
Stop making Children feel Bad
"You can't teach children to behave better by making them feel worse. When Children feel better, they behave better”. (Pam Leo) So many...
How do I parent my teenager??
Parents of teens sometimes feel confused, helpless, or “what used to work, doesn’t work anymore….”!! We definitely need to recalculate...
The 2 buckets of our children
Before becoming a psychotherapist, Alfred Adler was a medical doctor that firmly believed in PREVENTION (instead of TREATMENT). Adlerian...
For Things to Change, YOU must Change
Yes making changes in your parenting IS HARD WORK, but it will be beneficial on the long run. Parenting is taking care of “the long run”...
How can we increase our Children's Resilience?
“Just when the caterpillar thought her life was over, she began to fly”…. I hear lots of parents talk about the fact that, after...
Is it time to ditch the Diapers?
4 tips: 1. READINESS – We start the process of potty training when OUR CHILD is ready (and not when WE think it’s a good time). How do we...
Focus on what you can control – YOURSELF!
Remember, you can always control YOUR RESPONSE to a situation, or to your child. How? By preparing ahead of time! 1. Prepare YOUR CHILD...
Allow your Children to fail
It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings....
Time Out?
Mommy / Daddy, when you put me in time-out I feel so lonely….. I feel alone in the whole world, because YOU are MY WORLD, and when you...
Help! My Child is Cursing!
4 steps to stop my child from swearing: Lets realize that even if its hideous (or terribly embarrassing or annoying), we have...
Crime and Punishment
“Stop”!, “What was she thinking”?, “He deserves to be punished!”… Sometimes children just have to “learn the lesson”… But what “lesson”...