by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Apr 7, 2016
In a recent parenting workshop I facilitated, we had a lively discussion about having courageous conversations with our children about the things they do that we do not like. One of my parents burst out with, “but what if it’s your mother?” The whole room laughed and...
by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Mar 28, 2016
The latest episode in the Katt Williams saga is a video tape showing him sucker-punching a teenager and the teenager reacting by wrestling him to the ground and putting him in a chokehold. Since TMZ first promoted the story, there have been longer video versions, an...
by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Feb 11, 2016
“I’m going to speak my mind. If they have the right to tell me all the things I’m doing wrong then I have the right to do the same to them!” Long pause from me. Certainly, any of us who are raising and/or regularly interacting with teenagers have heard...
by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Jan 27, 2016
Yes, Donald Trump. That’s not a typo or an attention-grabbing title. I guess it is attention-grabbing, but it is also true. I discovered it a couple of months ago, not through ancestry.com or some secret letter hidden away in my parent’s belongings or through some...
by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Jan 21, 2016
I no longer make resolutions. I help other people with their Conflict Resolutions. As a woman who has spent the predominance of her life caught up in the endless cycle of dieting and body shaming, I spent way too many new years making resolutions and then breaking...
by Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Oct 19, 2015
In this last week, I have had three separate experiences regarding the art of communication. The first was a parent meeting at my youngest son’s school. A spirited discussion on the problems and opportunities technology presents for our children in the realm of...
