Posts Tagged ‘identity development’

Your Teen’s Self-love (2010-1-29)

I want me to be friends with me. Self-love. You can’t love anyone else without it at least not well. You can’t be the best you can be without it. It isn’t directly taught and yet it is a part of everything you will teach your teen before they are an adult.
I want to be [...]

Childhood Nicknames Can Stick (2009-12-8)

“Daddy’s princess,” “Little Man,” “Gordo,” “Skinny Minnie,” these nicknames are in their own way endearing, but at some point when your toddler matures, develops their self-consciousness, and begins to take on the prejudices of society; gordo is going to mean fat.
 
Once gordo is no longer endearing, your teen will start to think about what their [...]