Girl Power

May 16, 2009

I was talking with my friend, Kathy, about how even liberal and forward-thinking parents may be blind to a certain issue related to sexism:  Why do we frame sex and dating generally in terms of what to do when a boy asks you out, or wants to do this or that?  Why isn’t it okay […]

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Transition is Hard

May 15, 2009

This is the first mantra of parenting:  Transition is hard.  Almost every time we have a problem with our child it occurs at a transition (i.e. school to home, nap to awake, high school to college). Yet transition is how we learn and grow (i.e. non-reader to reader, never played on a team to team-player).

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Let’s Get It Started

May 14, 2009

Great art is driven by questions more than answers, and so is great parenting.  In that spirit, I pose a question to all who have clicked their way to these words:  What is it that gets in the way of you being your best Self as a parent? Also, what questions, or conflicts, continually arise […]

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A Brief Story

May 14, 2009

Last Sunday was Mother’s Day, which I was honored to host.  After I finished cooking eighteen omelets, gifts and cards were exchanged.  My eight-year-old niece had written a poem for her mom, in which she referred to her father, when he was angry, as “Volcanus Eruptus.”  Her dad, a loving and devoted father was less […]

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Hello

May 13, 2009

Greetings and thanks for coming to visit my blog.  By way of introduction, my name is Bruce Steven Dolin and I am a clinical psychologist working in Beverly Hills, California.  I am also a husband, parent of two boys now ages twelve and fifteen, and an ardent yogi (which I have found strongly informs my […]

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