Perilous Parenting Part 4: 5 Effects of Avoidant Parents on their Children

As part of our Perilous Parenting series on Beyond Medicine, we discussed the effects of absent or avoidant parents. Some first-time parents may have no […]

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Perilous Parenting – Part 3: 7 Ways to Deal with Narcissistic Parents

Narcissism is a type of mental illness and personality disorder, where a person feels that they are special and entitled. They have an inflated sense of […]

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Perilous Parenting Part 2: 10 Ways to Bridge the Generation Gap

It is an accepted fact that the rate of change in the 21st century is far greater than a century back. This contributes to the generation […]

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Perilous Parenting Part 1: Following Outdated Traditions

We started a new conversation in our Beyond Medicine series recently, called Perilous Parenting. The first of the issues we discussed was the consequences of […]

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Music Eases Physical Pain

Sundarajan and I recently wrote a post on the myriad healing benefits of music, which is supported by this excellent overview of relevant research on the […]

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