Barbara Harcavi

Can you tell me about your approach? My approach is based on Alfred Adler’s theory, which is very practical, and entails many tools and...

What is the one question you need to ask yourself if your kid is lying? That question is: WHY? WHY is my child lying TO ME? The answer to...

We all sometimes yell and scream at our children. Most of the time, after the outburst, we just continue as if nothing happened... Yet,...

When your child is screaming. When your child is crying. When your child is angry. When your child is having a full-blown tantrum. Just...

How can we give certitude and a sense of safety to our children when we feel our world has been overturned? We are getting farther away...

Tomorrow is the big day – September 1st. For some parents it’s a very happy day and for some it’s kind of a scary day. Sending a child to...

The parents that I am meeting in August are mostly exhausted, sometimes angry and exasperated… Not too long ago, with 3 young children, I...

Working for so many years with parents has made me become very humble regarding my opinions and knowledge about parenting. I came to...

Those are the 5 preconditions for toilet training: Physical maturity – My child knows how to walk and how to take his pants off (and back...

“We think that children act, whereas what they mostly do is react”. (Dr. Gabor Maté) Our children react to the way we speak to them, to...

There is no doubt about it, when a new baby enters the family, the oldest one is “dethroned”. However, let’s remember that having a...

Children don't say: I had a bad day, can we talk? They say: Will you play with me? (Lawrence Cohen) Dear parents, giving time and...

I get a lot of calls from parents regarding anxiety. It is a very sensitive subject and parents who suffer themselves from anxiety,...

When I ask parents what they really want for their children, most of them answer: I just want her/him to have HIGH SELF-ESTEEM! I...

Antwerp 1981 - My first day of elementary school. Do you remember your first day of school? Have you shared about it with your children?...

Parenting is hard work. For some it comes very easily and naturally. But for the majority of us, it entails a process of learning,...

Just because she carries it well Doesn’t mean it isn’t heavy…. (C) Noelle Mirabella To all the mothers out there, I just wanted to say...

We all know those challenging moments we say “no” to our child, or things don’t exactly turn out like she/he had in mind, and here starts...

Having a “shy” child is a HUGE CONCERN for many parents… But we are all somewhere on the scale between extroversion and introversion,...

“The Harvard Grant Study – The longest longitudinal study ever undertaken (for more than 75 years) – concludes that the key to a happier...