Support Group for Parents with Adolescents A project of KIN & KiDS Marriage, Family and Child Therapy Center An 8-week experiential group where a small group of parents come together in a safe environment to explore the issues they experience with teenagers and to help each other to be better parents for the people they love. The group leader will facilitate a dynamic group process for participants to learn and share their experiences therapeutically.
Good night, sleep tight… but I just can’t! By: Lee Sook Huey Having a peaceful and easy sleep can be deeply satisfying. Unfortunately, one tenth of us suffer from insomnia, a condition characterized by difficulty falling or staying asleep. While most of us have experience days of poor sleep due to anticipation of exciting events or occasional stressful periods, we will usually be able to adapt to these situations within 2 weeks. When the
“Mummy, I don’t want to go to school…” By Frances Lim A plea I made back when I was four years old as I refused to go to kindergarten. Bullied by classmates, the new environment created too much anxiety for me to bear. I remember waking up in the morning dreading to go to school and vomiting in trepidation whenever my appeal to not go to school was denied. After two weeks, I dropped
Suicide: When prevention is better than cure By Soh Yoke Wah As a person who never had a suicidal thought, it was hard for me to fully comprehend what hardships or sorrows a person goes through for him or her to come to a state where the wish to die is so much greater than the wish to live. Perhaps you are like me, but this does not mean we cannot do anything to help.
Loving or sexing children? Newspapers and social media have been abuzz recently with the magnanimous offer of a government-funded college to one of their overseas scholars of a second chance to continue his academic pursuits despite being caught for the possession of over 30,000 videos and photos of child pornography. While it is quite natural for people to develop loving feelings towards little children due to their cuteness and innocence, developing sexual feelings towards