http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog skills to help relationships, family, children and you! Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:41:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/predictable-routines-predict-less-anxiety-in-children/638/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/predictable-routines-predict-less-anxiety-in-children/638/#comments Sun, 08 Aug 2010 03:57:50 +0000 Deborah Tucker http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=638 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/predictable-routines-predict-less-anxiety-in-children/638/feed/ 0 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/parenting-class-for-parents-simi/563/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/parenting-class-for-parents-simi/563/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:35:30 +0000 Deborah Tucker http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=563 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/parenting-class-for-parents-simi/563/feed/ 0 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/cyber-bullying-do-you-know-what-it-is/550/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/cyber-bullying-do-you-know-what-it-is/550/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:10:20 +0000 Deborah Tucker http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=550 If you think the term bully refers only to the “mean kid” at school, think again. These days, bullying has risen to a whole new level, thanks to the internet, cell phones, and our whole “wired-in” mentality. Because words spread like wildfire over the internet, cyber-bullying is a far more damaging phenomenon than that “mean [...]]]> http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/cyber-bullying-do-you-know-what-it-is/550/feed/ 0 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/does-letting-your-baby-cry-it-out-cause-harm/495/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/does-letting-your-baby-cry-it-out-cause-harm/495/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:31:36 +0000 Deborah Tucker http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=495 Here’s a link to a post that was being share on one of my therapist email lists recently. http://www.drmomma.org/2009/12/crying-it-out-causes-brain-damage.html For us “old moms” it can be upsetting to wonder if we caused damage by letting our children cry.  I can’t remember too many events where that was true, but one in particular stands out.  I remember our [...]]]> http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/does-letting-your-baby-cry-it-out-cause-harm/495/feed/ 0 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/how-to-raise-a-competent-young-adult-part-3/459/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/how-to-raise-a-competent-young-adult-part-3/459/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:18:47 +0000 Deborah Tucker http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=459 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/how-to-raise-a-competent-young-adult-part-3/459/feed/ 0 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/how-to-raise-a-competent-young-adult-part-2/448/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/how-to-raise-a-competent-young-adult-part-2/448/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:49:48 +0000 Deborah Tucker http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=448 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/how-to-raise-a-competent-young-adult-part-2/448/feed/ 0 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/how-to-raise-a-competent-young-adult-part-1/441/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/how-to-raise-a-competent-young-adult-part-1/441/#comments Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:53:18 +0000 Deborah Tucker http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=441 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/how-to-raise-a-competent-young-adult-part-1/441/feed/ 0 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/the-gift-of-time-the-morning-rush-hour/408/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/the-gift-of-time-the-morning-rush-hour/408/#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:18:48 +0000 Deborah Tucker http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=408 Here is a guest piece, written by clinical psychologist Shiro Torquato. You can learn more about her by visiting her page on our website. It’s back-to-school time again. If you are like most parents you view this time of year with mixed feelings. You are sorry to see the lazy days of summer gone [...]]]> http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/the-gift-of-time-the-morning-rush-hour/408/feed/ 1 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/step-mothers-step-monster-no-more/430/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/step-mothers-step-monster-no-more/430/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:15:54 +0000 Deborah Tucker http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=430 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/step-mothers-step-monster-no-more/430/feed/ 0 http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/parenting-the-big-picture/117/ http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/parenting-the-big-picture/117/#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:41:22 +0000 Deborah Tucker http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/?p=117 If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. Laurence J. Peter, US educator & writer (1919 – 1988) Parenting is the most important job in the world. Sometimes, we try so hard to learn how to be good parents that we forget what the main goals of parenting [...]]]> http://www.simi-therapy.com/blog/parenting-the-big-picture/117/feed/ 0