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Helping Your Child Choose a College or Other Post-High School Option

In this third installment in my PsychologyToday.com series on career advice for parents of boys and for men, I offer advice on choosing and making the most of college as well as other post high-school options. I believe this is one of my more useful articles.

Helping Your Child Explore Careers

In this, Part II of my four-part series on career advice for boys and men, I discuss how parents can help their sons and daughters to explore career options. As usual, it's in PsychologyToday.com.

Helping Your Son Develop Moderate Self-Esteem

In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I argue that moderate self-esteem is prerequisite to success and that today, it's particularly difficult to develop in boys.  I go on to offer suggestions for how to engender it.

A Workover: He Desperately Wants a Career Change But...

On my NPR-San Francisco radio program, I do Workovers: Listeners call in with a career problem.
I've been posting edited transcripts of Workovers that might interest PsychologyToday readers.

Today's offering presents the exchange I had with a caller who is an unhappy engineer and would love to change careers but is scared because he has the expenses of being married and having a child. He's also daunted by the cost and time of going back to school.

Why Planned Parenthood is a Most Worthy Charity

Politicians' twisted efforts to de-fund Planned Parenthood are reprehensible. 

In my PsychologyToday.com arrticle today, I explain why and why, in fact, Planned Parenthood is one of the wiser charities you can donate to. 

Capitalism is Ending. Now What?

A number of factors lead me to be believe capitalism is in its final stages. In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I explain why I feel that way, what I believe will replace the U.S.'s hybrid capitalist/socialist model, and raise questions about what you and I might want to do in light of all that.

Three Keys to Effective Conversation

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers three potent, easy-to-explain, harder-to-implement conversation rules.

Addressing Sad Child Syndrome

There are many reasons a child could be sad and many solutions. So attempting to address them all in one brief article is impossible. 

But my PsychologyToday.com article today offers parents a key approach or two for dealing with four major sources of childhood sadness.

Addressing Sad Athlete Syndrome

We think of athletes as happy, doing what they love. But I've had clients who, despite their love of sport, suffer psychologically.  I call this, Sad Athlete Syndrome. 

I discuss how to ameliorate it in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

Should You Chuck Your Career? A Debate

You have a reasonable job but don''t love it, so you wonder if that's all there is for you.

Many people ask themselves that. So in my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer an internal debate on that: If you have a so-so career, should you chuck it so you have the time and motivation to find something better?