Making the Most of Meal Time

In my final posting on feeding in families, I’d like to take this opportunity to talk about family meals. I mentioned the importance of showing your children that you are eating healthy foods as a way to get them to learn this behavior in previous posts. In addition to this positive modeling, eating meals together has many additional benefits for families, like children doing better in school...

Happy Couples

This past semester, I’ve been teaching undergraduates at the University of Maryland all about couple relationships.  What a great idea for a college course, right?!  Learning about the aspects of successful and unsuccessful couple relationships is just as important as learning about world history or macroeconomics.  We covered a full range of topics relevant to couples—from marriage...

Understanding Hereditary Cancer Risk, Part II: Genetic Counseling and Testing

This blog post is the second in a series about hereditary cancer risk and how it can be addressed in the context of Medical Family Therapy. In my last post I discussed some of the basic points about hereditary cancer syndromes. This next post focuses on genetic testing, or the process of learning whether or not a cancer-related mutation is present in a given individual. Ideally, the process of...

Who decides? Allowing children to serve themselves at mealtime

New research on parent-feeding recommends that parents should decide what, when and where food is served and the child decides whether to eat it and how much food to eat. This strategy may contradict what many parents are already doing when it comes to meal time in their families. Apprehensions about allowing your child to eat how much food they want might be based in a concern over food waste or...

Multitasking Our Relationships

Multitasking is often lauded as an efficient skill– who doesn’t want to be able to complete several tasks at once?  Even for me, the satisfying feeling of crossing off several items from a to-do list is hard to resist.  But as much as our culture praises busyness and organization, how effective are we really when we give divided attention?  As Henry Ford put it, “a weakness of...

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