Sex is THE big subject parents avoid. The interesting thing is that by the time teenagers begin dating, they already know way more about sex than parents imagined. Why? One reason is that elementary school children now attend sex-ed classes at earlier and earlier ages. Sometimes this occurs in the sixth or even the fifth grade. …

In my capacity as an outpatient psychologist, I have worked with children of all ages for over twenty years. Usually parents drag their kids into my office complaining of a litany of bad behaviors, ranging from not cleaning up their rooms, to getting bad grades, hitting their siblings, or worse, stealing, fighting or doing drugs. I …

I found some more good quotes on guilt… “Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.”–Dennis Miller “Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.”– Cathy Guisewite “No work for love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made …

In my wanderings about the literature on guilt, I ran across some quotes. Some are sprinkled throughout an ebook I’ve written on guilt. Here’s some I thought were good: “Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.”–Peter McWilliams “If I had my life to live over again, I’d be a plumber.”–Albert Einstein “If you wind up with a …

This is the last in a seven-part series of articles on dealing with guilt. Please read the first six before reading this one. Written by a psychologist. To continue… There are some who will not abandon religion in their quest for a guilt-free existence. Unfortunately, religious people often suffer the greatest guilt. “I’m an Irish Catholic …