by Dana Basu, PsyD | Feb 13, 2021 | Childhood Mental Health, Coping, Development, Feelings
How to Teach Your Kids About Emotions At any given moment, can you identify what you’re feeling? And not just “bad,” “ugh,” or “like crap,” but I mean really put a word to your emotional state? Words like “guilty,” or “lonely” or “vulnerable,” or even...
by Dana Basu, PsyD | Jan 24, 2021 | Attachment, Childhood Mental Health
How to Build a Secure Attachment With Your Child We all want what’s best for our children, but who knew we could begin to give them this from day 1? It all starts with building a secure attachment. What is Attachment? You’ve may have heard of the...
by Dana Basu, PsyD | Oct 31, 2020 | Childhood Mental Health, Development
Before becoming a parent, I thought about all the things that I wanted to pass down to my children. You know… all the values, skills, habits and wisdom I thought would set them up for success in their lives. Most of us do that sort of thing, right? There are all...
by Dana Basu, PsyD | Sep 30, 2020 | Anger, Childhood Mental Health, Coping
Think back to the last time you lost your sh*t. Was it with your partner? Your sibling? Your coworker? Your kid? Pull this memory up into your mind, as vividly as you can now. Remember the adrenaline coursing through your body. The thoughts spinning around in your...
by Dana Basu, PsyD | Sep 30, 2020 | Anger, Childhood Mental Health
Building your child’s emotional IQ is an important component of teaching them to cope with anger. In my last post I wrote about the importance of preventing unnecessary anger by paying attention to both precipitating events and context (if you haven’t yet read...
by Dana Basu, PsyD | Sep 5, 2020 | Anger, Childhood Mental Health, Coping
Many parents struggle when confronted with their children’s feelings, but no issue seems to be so universally confounding as their children’s anger. It’s no wonder, given the high stakes of uncontrolled anger (i.e. aggression), which can lead to suspensions and...
