The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get! I think there is a lot of wisdom in that phrase. Wisdom that we should be passing on to kids, tweens and teens. As a positive psychologist, and author of The Truth, (I’m a girl, I’m ten and I know everything) I know only too well that […]
Author Archives: Barbara Holstein
The Daring Book For Girls
I thought you might relate to the review I just did on Amazon for The Daring Book For Girls. After all, we are all still ‘girls’ or ‘boys’ somewhere inside of ourselves. Our youngster days don’t just disappear. They may fade a little, but the energy and fun in those days is still a gift […]
Crushes, We all have had them
As most of my readers know, I’m a positive psychologist. I’m fascinated with lots of the universal struggles that most of us seem to go through. One that I find repeated again and again is the secret crush that tweens and teens often have. Almost everyone has been there and it can be very exciting […]
Two and One Half Men may be funny but what is the show saying about schools and tweens?
Tonight, Monday evening, I happened to catch some of Two and One Half Men on CBS. It is a modern day comedy-a far cry from I Love Lucy that I so loved to watch on Monday nights at 9:00 PM so many years ago. That show had an innocense that Two and One Half Men […]
A Fourteen year old boy in Pasadena agrees with the ‘girl’ in The Truth, (I’m a girl, I’m smart and I know everything) And the truth is it is not nice to swear
Gosh darn! Cussing banned in California town-taken from CNN news South Pasadena declares first week of March as No Cussing Week Mayor hopes proclamation will "elevate the level of discourse" Anti-swearing drive started with teen who founded high school’s No Cussing Club _________________________________________________________________ This news is so exciting. As a positive psychologist, a school psychologist, […]
Bullying increases risk of depression and more
I heard on ABC Now News today that bullying can increase the risk of depression and even suicide. These are serious findings. For more information fo to www.abc.com and go to the on call section. Every day, in every way possible we need to help kids, teens and tweens to not be bullied. We also […]
Tweens will always give us wild rides but as parents we can handle it!
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/family/tweens/ Jan Singer wrote a wonderful blog entry today on her tween son who give her a ‘wild ride’ as most tweens do. Here is my response: I’ve been a psychologist in private practice for over 25 years and a school psychologist. I don’t have a tween boy, but soon I’ll have a grandson getting […]
Positive Psychology for Women -Let’s Get Positive With Our Bodies and Ourselves!
Posiitve Psychology always encourages a positive attitude in the way we look at important parts of our lives and of course ourselves. And what is more important than your body and yourself? We need to keep our bodies healthy and ‘happy’ just as we need to keep our minds ‘happy’, in good mental health. I […]