Archive For The “Parenting” Category

Helicopter Grandparenting: When Helping Becomes Hovering and Harming

By | November 11, 2011

I recently had a couple in my office for a variety of issues. We initially started to dialogue and generate some solutions concerning some significant problems they were facing. Their problem began long before their marriage, as I will explain, but had become an acute issue that was taxing their relationship and marriage as well [...]

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Emotional Codependency in Marriage and Parenting Relationships

By | August 7, 2011

Codependency has typically been associated or understood to be a dynamic that occurs with individuals that are addicted to substances and their partners or spouses. Today the phenomenon we call codependency can be associated with those that are in fact not using substances of any kind. Mothers and children, husbands and wives, friends and associates [...]

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Freedom and Maturity With Developing Adolescents

By | July 23, 2010

Teenagers bring with them a capacity to risk and explore their world similar to when they were toddlers. The difficulty is, most teens want the freedom of egocentric toddlers without the responsibility they need to bear as they are approaching young adulthood. Parents hope that as their son or daughter matures, he/she will meet developmental [...]

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Parenting Styles – Rigid, Lax, or Somewhere Inbetween?

By | December 9, 2009

Parents gladly receive children into their lives eager to teach and guide them. Fond hopes are created and dreams planned as their child begins to grow and develop. The difficulty is, kids don’t arrive with an owners manual. So, most parents by default end up parenting based on their own experience they learned consciously or [...]

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Full List of Blog Articles by Justin Stum

By | July 22, 2003

How Do I Know If My Pornography Use Is A Problem, Habit, or Addiction? What Is It Most Women Really Want? Helicopter Grandparenting: When Helping Becomes Hovering and Harming Addicted: Those That Get Addicted and Those That Don’t Sexual Addiction & Brain Arousal – Neurobiology of Internet Porn Emotional Codependency in Marriage and Parenting Relationships [...]

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