BERGEN COUNTY MOMS

You know when you have a bad day with your kids; everyone seems to be fighting and bickering and you kind of lose it?! Then you hear a...

It’s 9pm. The phone rings and the voice on the other end says, “There’s been an accident.” Your 75-year-old parents were driving home...

Have you ever asked an 'innocent question' and all hell broke loose? That's because innocent questions are rarely innocent. You think...

“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” – Unknown You bring your newborn baby home with great joy and some...

The phrase ‘letting go’ has been coming up everywhere I turn. It is tied to self-esteem, resilience, emotional intelligence and every...

School. Sports. Clubs. Chances are, if your child is involved in any of these, he or she talks all day. So why don’t all kids gravitate...

In the first of this two-part series, we learned that overparenting is another word for hovering, helicoptering and micromanaging. When...

Overparenting. It’s the new buzzword for helicopter parenting, enabling and micromanaging. I did them all. I’m happy to say that I’ve...

Byron Katie, creator of The Work says, “When you argue with reality you lose… 100% of the time.” When you think “If only my teenager...

What are you (and every other parent) addicted to? Your child, of course, and the dreams you have before you even hold that baby in your...

New Year’s Day is not the only time to think about change. Every day brings a fresh start. And, of course, since my focus is parenting...

Sixty percent of students take five to six years to complete college (or don’t graduate at all). A big reason is that they are not...

My neighbor returned some children's books I lent her to read to her young daughters. Seeing the titles brought back all sorts of sweet...

Every so often my computer or iPad has a glitch, or hiccup. My husband's advice is to shut it down and start over again. The computer...

No one likes to think about it, much less talk about it. But at some point, your loved one may not be able to do the things he or she...

The surveys and statistics bear it out: teens are misusing drugs and alcohol at younger and younger ages. Parents are often unaware...

“In most ways, kids are pretty much the same as they’ve always been. Nuts. But in most ways, the world around them is incomprehensibly...

In a two-parent home (and with divorced couples, too) it's common for each of you to have different strengths and challenges when it...

Last year I worked with a dad who shared a variety of concerns about his son. One was the possibility that his son was 'experimenting'...

Some time ago I worked with a mom who, as a consequence for some unpleasant behaviors, took away her 13-year old son's cell phone for...