Part 1 of this post can be found here. One of the things that can be hardest about watching our children grow into adolescence and young adulthood is dealing with our own hopes and fears about their sexuality. As a counselor at Hillel UW, I often have the opportunity to talk with young people about…
Parenting Our Children toward Healthy Sexuality: Part 1
One of the things that can be hardest about watching our children grow into adolescence and young adulthood is dealing with our own hopes and fears about their sexuality. Will they make choices that are consistent with the values we tried to teach them? Will they be safe? Will they get involved with caring people…
Becoming Life Scribes
When JFS hosted a reading by local poet Esther Altshul Helfgott last fall, she closed the event by asking audience members to write something from their own lives. I was inspired by the notion that we can become the scribes of our lives and the lives of our loved ones. This got me thinking about…
Why Does My Son With Tourette’s Have to Fight to be Accepted?
At my son’s friend’s middle school, a student came down with leukemia after fall semester. Fortunately, he went into remission in spring and was able to return to school. All the students were called to an assembly before he returned to explain why this student would be without hair, what had happened to him, and…
Facts and Myths about Teen Suicide: Why Starting The Conversation is Critical (Part 2)
For Part 1 of this article, please click here. Start the conversation Two of the biggest misconceptions regarding suicide are that talking about depression increases depression, and that saying the word “suicide” out loud plants the idea of suicide in a person’s brain. “Sit down with your child. It’s starting up a conversation where you…
Facts and Myths about Teen Suicide: Why Starting the Conversation is Critical (Part 1)
Suicide ideation — thoughts about or a preoccupation with suicide — isn’t just a term to me; I believed my life was worthless at age 17. It took me hours to fall asleep, and I saw no reason to leave the warmth of my bed and attend school. My parents brought me to a counselor,…
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