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Never Underestimate the Power of the Dinner Table

April 10, 2021

In his book, The Second Mountain, David Brooks describes a weekly gathering in which he participates where a family opens …

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A Case for FAMILY Dinners

April 3, 2021

You may not have thought about this before, but teens experience what public health folks call, “optional morbidity,” meaning that …

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A New Way to Respond in a Crisis: Check Your Tone, Check Your Face

October 16, 2020

Because teens are learning SOOO much and because they are longing to independently explore their world, they make a lot …

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Never let a good crisis go to waste!

October 9, 2020

In my line of work coaching parents, teens and young adults, not a week goes by that a client doesn’t …

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Attuning One More Season

May 30, 2018

ATTUNEMENT: to bring into accord, harmony, or sympathetic relationship; adjust: He has attuned himself to living in the quiet country. …

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Why She Drinks

July 26, 2017

(Photo from Wall Street Journal, June 22, 2013)   At a time when I hear many more young women (teens) …

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Pretty? Beautiful? Hot? Sexy? Slutty?: What DOES she want to be?

June 16, 2017

(NOTE: this is from an Abercrombie & Fitch ad) There isn’t a female on the planet who doesn’t want to …

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Teen Drinking: What’s a Parent To Do?

April 1, 2015

    Whether you look east or west, north or south, underage drinking and the attendant outrageous acts have been …

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Raised in a Glass Jar?

October 12, 2014

A man raised a baby swan in a glass jar, but as the bird grew it became stuck in the …

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Why She Drinks

July 1, 2013

(Photo from Wall Street Journal, June 22, 2013)   At a time when I hear many more young women (teens) …

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Kathleen Fischer

Kathleen is a popular speaker in corporate, church, and community settings as well as a sought after family/parenting coach for individuals and groups.

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