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The Digital Age: Your Kid's Media Plan
Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we would like to share an article with you by Michelle Healy of USA Today. The article describes a newly revised policy statement by the American Academy of...
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The Digital Age: Emotion Coaching Step III
In case you are just joining us on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we have been discussing the importance of empathizing with your youngster for the last couple of weeks. In particular, we have been...
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The Digital Age: Communicating With Your Kids
In theory, it seems obvious that human kindness is just as necessary online as offline. For some reason, when interacting with others on the web, this becomes easy to forget. Though we often engage in...
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The Digital Age: Emotion Coaching Step IV
As we mentioned on Wednesday, the Digital Age can be a scary and confusing place for kids. However, all hope is not lost - our research has shown that adults can help kids struggling with moments of...
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The Digital Age: Emotion Coaching Step V
The fifth and final step of Emotion Coaching according to Dr. John Gottman is to set limits while helping your child to problem solve. This should come naturally to any parent, as humans are drawn into...
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The Digital Age: Invalidating Indifference
You may have heard the old adage, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” In today’s cyberworld, children are being exposed to messages that teach them apathy, not empathy. Today’s media...
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The Digital Age: A Sense Of Urgency
Virtual communication seduces us, offering a myriad of momentary pleasures as the immediacy of response provides instant gratification. A dopamine rush. Our opportunity for contact in the online world...
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The Digital Age: Empathy In Utopia
Regardless of age, the entanglement of virtual communication and social media is transforming our experience of reality. Though we are predisposed to empathize with one other in the flesh, the digital...
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The Digital Age: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
In his bookThe Shallows, author Nicholas Carr warns of the dangers of modern day "cybernetic blurring of mind and machine," which "may allow us to carry out certain cognitive tasks far more...
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Turn Adversaries Into Allies: Be A Wreath
With Thanksgiving nearly upon us, we break from our regularly scheduled programming on The Gottman Relationship Blog to share an article from The Huffington Post featuring our 5:1 ratio for happy...
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Holiday Cheat Sheet: A List Of Minor Bids
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, with family time approaching and the necessity of social grace close at hand, we’d like to give you something that you may appreciate. Today on The Gottman Relationship...
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Sliding Door Moments: The Holidays
Happy belated Thanksgiving to all of our readers that celebrated over the weekend. We hope you had a good one! If you're enjoying family time and seeing friends, we hope that you’re feeling fulfilled...
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5 Tips for Filling Your Holiday Season with Romance (Again)
Today, in honor of the beginning of the holiday season, we bring you Dr. John Gottman's 5 tips for filling your holiday season with romance. If they seem familiar, it is because we shared the same tips...
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Weekend Homework Assignment: Examining Your Rituals
Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we bring you an aptly timed Weekend Homework Assignment. If you read our post on Wednesday, Dr. Gottman’s Five Tips for Filling Your Holiday Season with Romance,...
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"An Attitude of Gratitude" and the 5:1 Ratio During The Holidays
The day after Thanksgiving, an online publication from Middletown, Delaware ran an article titled “Emotional Wellness: an attitude of gratitude has many benefits at home and at work.” In the spirit of...
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Holiday Gifts That Connect: Can't Buy Me Love!
Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we’d like to talk about bank accounts. Nearly every book, article, or blog written about holiday stress invariably turns to the subject of money. Holiday...
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Weekend Homework Assignment: Make the Holidays Your Own!
As we discussed on Wednesday, the holidays do not need to be a time of anxiety and suffering. While a "perfect" holiday may be unobtainable, we at The Gottman Relationship Blog are determined to...
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Dr. John Gottman's Tips for Creating Your Own Holiday Rituals
In our last blog posting on Friday, we shared a list of fun, inexpensive ways to connect with your family and friends over the holidays and discussed the importance of creating your own rituals of...
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Selfies, Sherry Turkle, and Turning Towards
Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we take a break from our regularly scheduled programming to share an article of interest – an opinion piece from The New York Times. The writer is none other...
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Building Family Culture: Holiday Stories That Connect
In his celebrated bestseller The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work, Dr. Gottman talks about the importance of tradition in building and maintaining a dynamic family culture: creating a set of...
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