-Debra Wesselmann and Cathy Schweitzer When your attachment relationship with your child is at its best, you and your child may experience the relationship as a dance in which both partners are moving to the same rhythm. Although you are in the lead, it’s not forced....
-Debra Wesselmann and Cathy Schweitzer Newborn babies are drawn to the face of the parent. Initially, the baby focuses just above the parent’s eyes. Eventually the baby is drawn to the eyes themselves. This is a magical and powerful moment in the life of the...
–Debra Wesselmann, MS, LIMHP Infants and toddlers who experienced neglect, changes in caregivers, or early medical pain or hospitalizations suffer great consequences for a situation that the children did not choose for themselves. Children who lived with...
—Stefanie Armstrong, MS, LIMHP On this Sunday afternoon, I’m trying to desperately shove all of the things I “have” to do before tomorrow…so instead I decide to sit down and write. What do the best procrastinators do? When things get too much, they do...
–Debra Wesselmann, MS, LIMHP Children will seek attention from their parents through a myriad of ways, such as hanging onto them, pulling on them, whining, complaining of stomach aches and headaches, and poking at their siblings. What is a parent to do? You may...
–Debra Wesselmann, MS, LIMHP Does your child attempt to instigate conflict? Do you feel like he has a need to argue or aggravate you? Do you find yourself losing your cool over and over and then feeling terrible about it afterwards? Your child may be “hooked”...
