Parenting tips

Dr. Robyn Silverman answers a question about attitude from one of her readers, Claire, in Bethesda, MD in this v-blog.
Dear Dr. Robyn,
My daughter, Lauren, seems to have a bad attitude about a lot of things.  If it isn’t her performance at a competition then it is her friends, her school work, or even her hobbies! [...]

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7 Parenting Tips to Help Your Daughter Deal with Mean Girl Drama, Bullying and Relational Aggression

Brianna, age 14, got in touch with me a few weeks back—right at the end of the school year.
“I’ve never been so excited for a year to be over in my whole entire life.”
“What makes you say that?”
“The girls [...]

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Dr. Robyn’s Friday Rant
So, in the beginning of this week I wrote about boys and pornography. Yesterday I received an email from my colleague, friend, and media-busting crusader, Amy Jussel of Shaping Youth asking for input on the sexualization focus she is doing. Then last night I read an article in The Baltmore Sun about [...]

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Sexually explicit images and pornography are all around us.  Unfortunately, we’re so inundated, many of us barely notice anymore. It DOES have an impact though.
As many of you know, I was the Content Consultant for 16 books for middle schoolers, eight for girls (Strong Beautiful Girls Series) and eight for boys (The Guy’s [...]

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Ask Dr. Robyn: 5 tips on how to focus

by DrRobyn on June 30, 2010

Scatterbrained? Unfocused? Can’t concentrate? Dr. Robyn answers a reader’s question about how she can focus (the June Powerful Word of the Month!). This is one of the most common questions among Dr. Robyn’s coaching clients.
Dear Dr. Robyn,
My brain seems to be all over the place these days.  I’m horrible about distractions.  When [...]

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Miley Cyrus has gotten people talking again. She’s no longer draped in a sheet at age 15 for her famous Vanity Fair shot —she’s almost 18 and being photographed, allegedly, without her undies, sexing herself up on her latest video, and breaking out of her Disney persona leaving  millions of young fans in her wake.  [...]

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Welcome to the World, Noah Stone Silverman

by DrRobyn on June 20, 2010

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Thank you, everyone, for your kind words of love for our new son, Noah Stone! As many of you know, we have built our family through the beautiful process of open adoption. We are so grateful for our newly expanded family and to the amazing and loving people who selflessly made our family possible.We [...]

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I was at the playground today with Tallie when I heard the words come from one mother who sat on the bench nearby. “Don’t get dirty, Hayley! You’ll ruin your outfit!” And so, there Hayley was, slowly swinging on the swing as she looked longingly at her brothers sliding down the slide, exploring the jungle [...]

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The Powerful Word of the Month this month is FOCUS…which has gotten me thinking a lot about priorities, goals, and just how much focus we are putting into these things that really matter.
As a success coach, I often ask my clients to rate different areas of their life on a scale from 1 to 10 [...]

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