How long should your child breastfeed? Should your child go to preschool? Should your child sleep with you or by him/herself? What about home-schooling vs. attending school? Most people who…...

Last week, Barry and I found ourselves at 10 pm sitting at a special reserved table at The Stud, the first gay bar in San Francisco. First of all, there…...

Codependency is based on false, dysfunctional beliefs that are learned from our parents and environment. Recovery entails changing those beliefs, the most damaging of which is that we’re not worthy…...

Children are growing up too fast. They are growing up in a toxic atmosphere of consumerism, overexposure to media, and aggressive marketing. The cyber revolution offers free communication and uninhibited…...

Do you want to have a happy home? Noah St. John offers his top insight into keeping a happy home, one that can change the dynamic at your family dinner…...

Every school in the United States is battling a bullying epidemic. The compilation of nationwide surveys completed since 1986 indicate an ever growing trend of entitlement ingrained in America’s youth (Reuters…...

Kenny is a silly, skinny, blue-eyed, nine-year-old boy, who barely tips the scales at 48 pounds. “I can practically spit through him,” my dad says on a regular basis. Although…...

Numerous, well-designed and well-powered studies, utilizing the Adolescent Health (AD Health) database have confirmed what all previous generations never needed to be taught. Parents who maintain a close, healthy and…...

No parent will consciously own up to the fact that favoritism is operative within some families. One of the unwritten norms of society is the attachment of mothers to their…...

Cutting is a terrifying and serious epidemic plaguing adolescents. Recent studies have found that one-third to one-half of adolescents in the US have engaged in some type of self-injurious behavior. As a psychotherapist…...