WARNING: LIFE IS NOT A CONTEST!
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing,
is giving up on being perfect and beginning the
work of becoming yourself.
- Anna...
SCHOOL COUNSELING
IT JUST TAKES ONE!
Research supports that children will thrive if they have just one positive role model. Kids are not necessarily trouble makers. It’s ju...
DISPELLING THE MYTHS
Our culture is permeated with parenthood myths such as the one of being able to escape the adolescent stage of development mentioned in...
SCHOOL COUNSELORS HELPING TO BRIDGE THE GAP FOR PARENTS
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But, when I got to be twenty-o...
STRATEGIES TO RESPOND TO PEER PRESSURE
First, Let's Define Peer Pressure
Peer pressure is easily defined. It is that compelling influence to act or look like those of our sa...
SCHOOL COUNSELOR RESPONSE TO PEER PRESSURE
The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel. ...
SELF-CARE AMIDST COVID-19
This time in our history with COVID-19 and this time in my life with my husband’s illness help me to remember the important things. Whe...
OUR ROLE IN CONNECTING SELF-CARE AND SELF-IMAGE
As mentioned in the previous blog, “It’s easier to build a child than to repair an adult.” Yet, we are the children who become adults. ...
THE SCHOOL COUNSELOR’S ROLE IN BUILDING CHILDREN
While we are doing this repair work for ourselves, as school counselors, we can help our children and teenagers do it right for the fir...
COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL COUNSELOR PROGRAM ACTIVITY
This post provides an activity for your Comprehensive School Counselor Program. You can practice for yourself as well as with the stude...