David Gottlieb, PhD

Dr. David Gottlieb answers parents’ questions about their preteen on his blog: helpingpreteens.blogspot.com. He has also written a parent’s manual for helping preteens entitled: Body Image, Peers, and Academics: What Preteens Stress About. He is the author of several other parenting books, including Anger Overload in Children and Your Child is Defiant: Why is Nothing Working. Dr. Gottlieb received a BA from Harvard in 1975 and PhD from Northwestern in 1982.

How to help tweens with body image issues

Many children as young as 9 and 10 start feeling dissatisfied with their bodies. Here’s how parents can help kids cope with these feelings and build a positive self-image.

How parents can help tweens with friend issues

Most tweens crave and need peer relationships that help them feel understood and accepted. Here’s how parents can help when inevitable friend drama and peer issues arise.

Anger overload in children: diagnostic and treatment issues

Anger issues in children: diagnostic and treatment

Learn how prolonged, intense anger outbursts in children may be related to other disorders—or not—and how to cope.