Steps to redirect your child’s thinking habits to inspire confidence

Steps to redirect your child’s thinking habits to inspire confidence

by | Jan 8, 2019 | Anxiety, Boundaries, Bullying, Children & Teens Problems & Pitfalls, Children's Health & Mental Health, Children's mental health, Cyber Safety, Cyberbullying, Education, Faith, Family, Happiness, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parenting, Social Media, Suicide, Teenagers, Texting, Wisdom, Youth Suicide

One significant challenge for youth today is that they are born into a cyber-powered world that hypes negative reasoning. This is an intense environment which when unchecked can shape a personal view of the world; that it is never going to “feel safe.”  And this world...
A parent’s secret weapon against online threats

A parent’s secret weapon against online threats

by | Dec 7, 2018 | addiction, Anxiety, Children & Teens Problems & Pitfalls, Children's Health & Mental Health, Faith, Family, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parenting, Relationship, Sexting, Social Media, Substance abuse prevention, Suicide, Teen drug addiction, Uncategorized, Wisdom

Key points: When parents criticize, judge and condemn other people’s children and their parents for things that disturb the peace (depression and anxiety/sexting/drug use/crime/bullying), the signal sent to youth is that it is not safe to talk about anything happening...
How to discipline your child without punishing them

How to discipline your child without punishing them

by | Nov 28, 2018 | Anxiety, Boundaries, Children's Health & Mental Health, Discipline, Family, Parent-child relationship, Parental Authority, Parental control, Parenting, Spanking, Uncategorized, Wisdom

In a recent article Washington Post columnist, Claire Gillespie, questions the modern wisdom of giving unruly children “time-outs” as the best method to instill discipline. A mom of two older children and expecting a third soon, she says she never used time-outs and...
Can parents teach children to love their neighbor? A response to the Pittsburgh massacre

Can parents teach children to love their neighbor? A response to the Pittsburgh massacre

by | Nov 9, 2018 | Abuse & Violence, Anxiety, Boundaries, Children's Health & Mental Health, Faith, Family, God's love, Parental Authority, Parenting, Prevention strategy, Relationship, Social Media, Uncategorized, Wisdom

Our Core Connectivity guest blogger, Dr. Susan G. Weinberger, founder of the Mentor Consulting Group in Norwalk, CT, is a dear friend and colleague.  Over the past 12 years we have shared a passion to respond to the issues of modern youth by educating one another...
What ‘Beautiful Boy’ says about addiction and family relations

What ‘Beautiful Boy’ says about addiction and family relations

by | Nov 7, 2018 | addiction, Anxiety, Children's Health & Mental Health, Faith, Family, Internet addiction, Parent-child communication, Parenting, Prevention strategy, Recovery, Social Media, Substance abuse prevention, Teen Drinking, Teen drug addiction, Teen Drug Use, Teenagers, Uncategorized, Wisdom

Executive summary Suffering is a part of the human condition. And families have power to decide what to think about and how to respond to suffering. Brain science tells us that addiction is a form of suffering; it is a pathological relationship to intoxication* making...
Signs your child is being cyberbullied and what to do about it

Signs your child is being cyberbullied and what to do about it

by | Oct 30, 2018 | Anxiety, Bullying, Children's Health & Mental Health, Cyber Safety, Cyberbullying, Faith, Family, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parenting, Peer abuse, Social Media, Uncategorized, Wisdom

Jeremiah Aha, M.A., M.Div, APCC, is the Assistant Director and Therapist at Wellness Together in Rocklin. Wellness Together focuses on providing mental health services for youth and is a preferred service provider for schools and families in the Sacramento region and...