Keep Kids Busy (and Learning) in Quarantine

• Facilitate Active, Engaged Learning
It may be tempting to hand over an iPhone or iPad or but the younger the child, the worse this is for their language and cognitive development.

Dressing Up in Costume

• The Meaning of Costumes and Masks
Much of children’s pretending and play comes out of their inner needs and feelings– and helps them work on their fears and master them. Fred Roger's said that play allows children to work on what’s close to their hearts, but from a safe distance.

Today is Mothers' Day

• Tell Her You Are Grateful
For families who are struggling with custody issues, Mothers' Day (and Fathers' Day) can bring up conflicted feelings. Today focus on this: that mother helped you bring your beloved child into the world. That child carries half of that mother within every cell of their being. For that you are very grateful.

Hostile Email

• Responding to Hostile Email
Make your divorce hate-mail free.

Putting the Hohoho in the Holiday

•Ten Tips for the (Divorced) Holidays
Boston psychologist Robin Deutsch is the director of the Center of Excellence for Children, Families and the Law at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School.