When a child has a bad school year, parents often feel helpless—full of love and concern, but unable to act effectively. That’s largely because a child who has problems at school could be struggling with a variety of issues. Declining grades are a red flag, but the parent has to know what part of the […]
What a difference one true friend can make. And how lonely life can feel without one.
When psychologists invented the concept of the resilient child, they were talking about kids from poor neighborhoods who overcame adversity. But if you grow up on the North Shore, adversity of that kind is hard to come by. Many of us help our kids so much that they never learn how tough, how determined […]
Susan B. Noyes and Dr. Meryl Lipton were on WGN’s midday news discussing the first issue of Make It Better magazine.
