Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder

isn’t true, though, to say that “feeding disorders” are only for infants, and “eating disorders” are for teenagers and adults. To study disorders of eating is to see that we live in an era when some children are old before their time, and some adults are forever juvenile.

Parents have a spiritual mandate to be guardian angels in the lives of their children. When parents lose sight of their spiritual mission and use their children selfishly, the children may develop emotional wounds that are significant and permanent. Parents must be willing to do whatever they need to do, including therapy, to rise to the occasion a

It was clear that many patterns relating both to parenting and to marriage were cross-generational. There were also numerous examples of patterns changing when people really worked at it. One woman talked about how hard she worked to parent in a different way than her mother did. She found that becoming a mother and working so diligently at it had

Children will invest as much energy as is needed to ensure the preservation of family harmony, even if it means sacrificing themselves to do so by developing psychological disorders. —Joel Covitz Emotional Child Abuse