I am honored when I get a chance to speak with parents about child mental health or building supportive parenting skills! Please feel free to contact me (781-315-6248; dr.ilanabe@gmail.com) if you think I might be a good fit for your organization or event!
Healthyway.com; 'Compliments You Seriously Need to Stop Giving Your Kids'
I am one of several experts quoted in this helpful rundown of ways to use praise to support your child's development: http://www.healthyway.com/content/compliments-you-seriously-need-to-stop-giving-your-kids/
Reading Parent University: Speaker on Parenting Child and Adolescent Anxiety. 10/21/2017
Boston Globe 5/13/16: Forget helicopter parenting. It's all about submarine parenting.
I was proud to be quoted in this article about alternative ways to support your child without reinforcing existing anxiety or insecurity.
I am one of several experts quoted in this helpful rundown of ways to use praise to support your child's development: http://www.healthyway.com/content/compliments-you-seriously-need-to-stop-giving-your-kids/
Reading Parent University: Speaker on Parenting Child and Adolescent Anxiety. 10/21/2017
Boston Globe 5/13/16: Forget helicopter parenting. It's all about submarine parenting.
I was proud to be quoted in this article about alternative ways to support your child without reinforcing existing anxiety or insecurity.
Helping our children develop resilience is critical, says Dr. Ilana Blatt-Eisengart, a clinical child psychologist in Reading with two children, ages 3 and 5.
“When we swoop in and save our kids, they don’t get the experience of failing and picking themselves back up,” says Blatt-Eisengart. “If kids don’t develop resilience, when they go out into world and hit the first big bump, they completely fall apart.”
Submarine parenting resonates with Blatt-Eisengart, who recommends putting children in situations a little beyond what they are sure they can do.
“Help your children find a place they aren’t entirely comfortable but where you are fairly sure they’ll have success, then you step back and see what the outcome is,” she says. “If it’s great you cheer them on, if not you step in and figure out what’s next.”
It’s crucial that parents manage their own anxieties about their kids. “Ask yourself, ‘Is this a bad situation or just uncomfortable for me?’ If your kid looks to you, you want him to see you saying, ‘go for it.’ No parent is able to do this all of the time, but we have to realize we can’t make the world totally safe for them.”
Wakefield Parent University; Presentation on Adolescent Anxiety. 3/19/16
Please feel free to download the handouts from my presentation to parents on adolescence and anxiety!
Please feel free to download the handouts from my presentation to parents on adolescence and anxiety!
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