Help! I Don't Know What Kind of Parent I Am.
In the years since my son Eden was born and diagnosed with life threatening food allergies there has been a counter trend towards laid back parenting, often called "slow" or "free range" parenting....
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Social Bookmarking for Your Small Business Blog
"If you write it, they will come." Well at least that's what all those small businesses that start a blog in the hope of driving hoards of potential customers to their site anticipate will happen....
View ArticleIf Inability to Delay Gratification –> Addiction—Uh, Oh!
A brilliant new study—heralded around the world—finds that siblings share a brain structure that makes it hard for them to delay gratification, which leads them to become addicted. The study's authors,...
View ArticleI’ll Be Happy When …
What is the source of happiness? We tend to assume that happiness will come from a future event. It typically depends upon something else happening. The script often reads like this:I'll be happy...
View ArticleSchool Bullying and Suicide
Over the last few weeks, I have had a flurry of calls from "stressed out" parents because their kids said to them: "I am going to commit suicide if you make me go back to that school. I want to end it...
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Not To Be Antisocial, But... Why Don’t You Leave Me Alone? Part III
In Part I, I discussed how the conviviality externality can cause people to issue too many social invitations, which on average makes people worse off. In Part II I argued that the friendship paradox...
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Ego Fatigue and the Pull of the Present
The classic ego fatigue test was developed by a psychologist named Baumeister and published in a 1998 article in a standard psychology journal. He put hungry people into a room and left them alone with...
View ArticleKeeping a Language Alive
Some of us feel that we are no longer making progress in a language that we have learned. Others of us who have known and used a language for years may realize that we are no longer using it very much,...
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Spirituality For Beginners (1): Exploring New Territory
Spirituality can best be thought of as new territory, there for you to explore. Think of yourself as a pioneer and the spiritual landscape as a vast kind of brand new adventure playground, a place...
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Train Your Brain with this Simple Exercise
Interested in a quick and easy way to test your practical logical skills? Maybe not. What if you learned that this simple test could help you save money, pass an important exam, or give you better ways...
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Tips for Surviving Monogamy
In the top ten reasons why individuals and couples come to me for intimacy and sexuality coaching is the reality that they have simply stopped having sex. Many think that what they need is "Sexual...
View ArticleFear In Termination: The Sympathetic Plaintiff
Currently in the news, there is a story about an employee who was terminated by her (small-business) employer. This employee had numerous incidences of personal tragedy in her family. Evidently, In the...
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How To Give Support Right
Perhaps they put Valentine's Day in the middle of cold, dank February to remind us of what really makes one's hearth warm: our friends and loved ones. In particular, when we're down in our luck or in...
View ArticleThe Road is Never Long Between Friends...Or Is It?
Proximity can play an important role in making or breaking a friendship. QUESTION Hi Irene, My friend and I used to be really close, however, I live at least an hour away and I can't drive. We've...
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Celebrity Stalkers
The life of a celebrity is not all glitz and glamour. Sometimes they attract stalkers. Some of those stalkers are deranged, determined and dangerous, and a few have succeeded with their lethal intent....
View ArticleThe need for self-discipline
Communion and friendship and orderliness and temperance and justice bind together heaven and earth and gods and people, and that this universe is therefore called order, not disorder or...
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DSM-5 Controversy Is Now Firmly Transatlantic
Proposed draft revisions to the DSM, which the American Psychiatric Association recently made available on its website, are already stirring major controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. With the...
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The Secret of Erotic Desire
"Valentine's Day is Tues and I love Eric, but something's missing," lamented Laura."What do you think that something is?" I asked.Lara explained, "I'm just not turned on to him. He's not at all into my...
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The Tragic Romantic Irony of the Self-Loather
Fans of Downton Abbey thrill to the English WWI-era drama for many reasons, one of which is the romantic tension granted by the noble restraint of several of its main characters. For instance, we have...
View ArticleAung San Suu Kyi’s Wisdom for an Election Year
Turning away, in dismay, at the shenanigans and worse of the participants and their supporters in the political primaries and upcoming election, I turned towards Burmese freedom fighter Aung San Suu...
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