Addressing the Child’s Inappropriate Behavior: A Paradigm Shift

Larry F. Waldman, PhD, ABPP Clinical, Forensic Psychologist When I began counseling parents in the early 70’s, then as a school psychologist, it was often necessary to warn of the harmful effects of spanking and/or paddling as a common discipline method. Today, the pendulum has swung to the other extreme, as parents are not effectively addressing their children’s inappropriate [...]

2022-02-18T11:17:37-07:00February 18th, 2022|Categories: Adult, Education, Mental Health|Comments Off on Addressing the Child’s Inappropriate Behavior: A Paradigm Shift

Nine Reasons Weight Lifters Should Engage in Yoga

By Larry F. Waldman, PhD, ABPP Psychologist, Trainer   Resistance training (weight lifting) is far more popular than yoga. It is rare, especially among men, to find people who do both. Having spent thousands of hours in the gym for the past 50 years and a hundred hours on a yoga mat this past decade, it is unfortunately clear [...]

2022-01-26T19:51:22-07:00January 26th, 2022|Categories: Adult, Education, Mental Health|Comments Off on Nine Reasons Weight Lifters Should Engage in Yoga

What’s the Best Way to Die? It Depends

By Larry F. Waldman, Ph.D., ABPP Clinical, Forensic Psychologist As you approach the age of our nation’s life expectancy, it’s natural to begin to consider end of life issues. How you might “pass,” is one of those considerations. My Zeide, as we called him, my paternal grandfather, was a strong, active man till the day he died. I [...]

2021-05-10T19:30:39-07:00May 10th, 2021|Categories: Adult, Family, Mental Health|Comments Off on What’s the Best Way to Die? It Depends

Telehealth Marketing: Local to Global

The pandemic has changed the way psychotherapy is currently provided. My local listserve is burning up with colleagues talking about the problems, ethical factors, insurance questions, the extra energy required, and more, regarding telehealth. In business it is said that in a crisis many people suffer but some people become wealthy. For example, delivery companies (of packages and restaurant [...]

2020-07-09T21:35:36-07:00May 25th, 2020|Categories: Adult, Family, Mental Health|Comments Off on Telehealth Marketing: Local to Global

Let Grandma Do it First

A major revelation to me from the current virus is the sad state of our digital system. Because many of us are house-bound, we are using the Internet more often for information, entertainment and socialization. Presumably due to this significantly increased demand, I regularly experience sites that don’t work, buttons that don’t function, pages that freeze or disappear, and [...]

2020-07-09T21:28:31-07:00April 25th, 2020|Categories: Adult, Education, Mental Health|Comments Off on Let Grandma Do it First

Five Sure Ways to Raise a Responsible Child

As an experienced clinical child psychologist, I believe the ultimate goal of any parent is to rear an independent and responsible child. While at first glance this may appear obvious, if we observe most parents in action on a day-to-day basis, it becomes evident that many parents have no idea how to achieve this objective. Most parents never take [...]

2020-02-22T18:19:35-07:00February 22nd, 2020|Categories: Children, Education, Family, Mental Health|Comments Off on Five Sure Ways to Raise a Responsible Child

Training Parents to Parent: A Five-Way Win for Schools

Schools today are required to provide more services than ever before.  For example, many schools across the nation offer a free hot breakfast and lunch to students.  Some schools serve as a community mental health center and some even supply medical services to the neighborhood. One service I believe schools can and should provide is parenting training.  Most parents [...]

2020-02-19T22:13:16-07:00February 17th, 2020|Categories: Education, Mental Health, Teens|Comments Off on Training Parents to Parent: A Five-Way Win for Schools

Making Your Parent-Teacher Conference More Effective

The parent-teacher conference can be an efficient tool to communicate with your child’s teacher.  Below are a few tips on how to make that meeting more productive: 1)  Show up:  My wife, now retired from teaching fourth grade for 28 years, often said that the parents with whom she most needed to talk rarely scheduled a conference. Children perform [...]

2020-02-17T17:56:00-07:00February 17th, 2020|Categories: Education, Family, Mental Health, Teens|Comments Off on Making Your Parent-Teacher Conference More Effective

Another Example of APA’s Hypocrisy and Arrogance

I left the APA decades ago when I realized that as a clinician the APA was not my friend and certainly was not worth the expense to remain a member.  I joined NAPPP as soon as I could.  Nevertheless, the APA still plagues me. For more than a quarter century I have presented workshops across the country to mental [...]

2020-02-17T17:21:12-07:00February 17th, 2020|Categories: Mental Health|Comments Off on Another Example of APA’s Hypocrisy and Arrogance

Must You Feel Like It to Do It?

A parent tells their young child to brush their teeth.  The child responds, “I don’t want to; I don’t feel like it.” It is perfectly normal for children to believe that they must be in a certain mood state (feel like it) to do something.  Most parents, though, tell their child that they are sorry that they don’t feel [...]

2020-02-17T20:22:49-07:00June 17th, 2018|Categories: Children, Education, Family, Mental Health|Comments Off on Must You Feel Like It to Do It?