Reena Bernards
Let Them Cry It Out–But Not Alone!
When a newborn arrives, it calls out into the world. As her parents take her into their arms and provide care they learn to respond to...
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Blogs from 2008-2020 were written for Jonah Green and Associates and are reprinted with permission.
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Reena Bernards
- May 22, 2017
- 4 min
Why Children Lie and How to Craft a Response
Many parents become undone when a child lies to them. Projecting in the future, parents fear that deceit will become habitual and last...
Reena Bernards
- Mar 18, 2015
- 3 min
Putting the Love Back into Tough Love
Ever since Bill Milliken, a Christian minister working with at-risk youth in New York’s lower East Side, wrote a book in 1968 by the...
Reena Bernards
- Mar 18, 2014
- 4 min
How to Make the College Application Year “Chill,” for You and Your Teenager
Spring is here and high school juniors are just now finding letters in their mailboxes that tell them whether a college has accepted them...
Reena Bernards
- Nov 25, 2012
- 3 min
Taming the Parental Dragon: Getting Underneath Anger
We love our children dearly, and they also make us furious. We may find ourselves angrier at the things our children do, whether they...
Reena Bernards
- Feb 15, 2012
- 3 min
Child Safety: Beyond “Stranger Danger”
Every parent’s number one responsibility is to keep their child safe. Since pictures of missing children began to first appear on milk...
Reena Bernards
- Jul 13, 2011
- 3 min
Teaching Values Through A Weekly Allowance
Your children’s weekly allowance can provide an important opportunity to teach the values that are salient in your family. It is wise...
Reena Bernards
- Feb 7, 2011
- 2 min
Leaving Home: The Journey of Growing to Adulthood
In her poem “To a Daughter Leaving Home,” Linda Pastan describes her experience of teaching her eight year old daughter how to ride a...
Reena Bernards
- Sep 14, 2010
- 2 min
Love in the Couple Relationship
Much has been written over the ages about the nature of love. Romantic stories with fairy-tale endings abound in the mass media as well...
Reena Bernards
- Apr 7, 2010
- 2 min
Support for Stay-at-Home Dads
Garrison Keillor, the musical host of the Minnesota radio show A Prairie Home Companion, recently sang a song on his show entitled “The...
Reena Bernards
- Jan 17, 2010
- 2 min
Talking With Kids About Diversity: Helping Children to Thrive in a Multicultural World
The Washington, D.C. area features families from a variety of racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds. Children who grow up...
Reena Bernards
- Jun 14, 2009
- 3 min
Positive Language About Adoption
Adoption is both a gift and a loss for all members of the adoptive triad: the child, the parents and birthparents. For the child,...
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