Detachment Parenting
The debates regarding parenting practice have become so polemical we might begin talking about "parenting wars." One of the latest battlefields is "attachment parenting" which focuses attention on the...
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Has Your Sex Life Got You Down?
If so, you may be suffering from an ailment that is common to a great many individuals and couples, more than most of us would imagine. And speaking of imagining, it's the lack of imagination that is...
View ArticleCoping with Terminal Illness: Getting An Honest Prognosis
After we admitted my father to the hospital for the last time, and after we were told that there was nothing that could be done to stop the buildup of fluid in his lungs, the doctor told me that he had...
View Article65 Quotes on Dancing
Dance to the music of these wonderful quotes...I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. - Friedrich NietzscheNobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. - Dave BarryTo...
View ArticleBill Will Allow Using Dogs To Lure Wolves To Be Killed: You Wanna What?
Just as I was preparing for a nice relaxing evening I received an email telling me that there is a bill pending in Idaho that will allow ranchers to use live bait, including dogs, to lure in wolves so...
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Man in the Mirror
I'm starting with the man in the mirror,I'm asking him to change his ways,And no message could have been any clearer,If you wanna make the world a better place,Take a look at yourself and then make a...
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Battling Away the Fear of Failure
One of the most difficult things I ever did as a civilian animal trainer for the U.S. Navy was teach a dolphin that it was okay to fail. Like a vice-principal inheriting the champion problem child of...
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My Dog Was Ready To Die–I Couldn't Let Go
A dog's life: How could I let him go? Bernie and his heroic schnozz celebrated every triumph, grieved every loss, galumphed beside us on every hike through every literal and emotional terrain, slept at...
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Principle Number Five: Love Your Enemy
This is an installment in a series called "Ten Principles for Moral Discipline." They are meant to form the basis of a moral, effective school bullying policy. The idea of "loving your enemy" was made...
View ArticleThe Best Friend Fantasy
QUESTION Irene, I had a boyfriend for two months that I became madly in love with, and thought he felt the same for me. His friends constantly said they had never seen him like this. Then, late into...
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Is There a Liberal Bias Among American Professors?
One often hears that members of the American intelligentsia are strongly left leaning, the most obvious manifestations of which would be the mainstream media as well as academia (cf. David Horowitz's...
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Combatting Asperger's: A Losing Proposition
Though I've had Asperger syndrome my entire life—more than thirty-four years, now—I've only known about it for the past few years. Like many who are diagnosed as adults, I was surprisingly relieved...
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Out to Get You
Last week, a story appeared in a Florida paper about a man who stole over a dozen identities to run scams and launder money. The U.S. Marshals Service is hunting him down. They have a photo, but he...
View ArticleJeremy Lin: Beyond the Numbers
"It's just us, being us, playing for us." - Jeremy Lin, Knicks point guard I've got a confession to make: I've caught the Linsanity along with everyone else. It's only been two weeks, but in that...
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I Didn't Know That
A funny thing happened to us on the way to writing our recently-published book featuring couples with long-term exemplary marriages: we got to be wrong about some of the beliefs that we had regarding...
View ArticleDo anti-depressants really work?
The television program, 60 Minutes, recently addressed the volume of research on the lack of efficacy of anti-depressant medications. This research began over a decade ago and has shown that...
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The Psychological Skillset of George Clooney - Part II
Here's more on the subtle mechanisms of Clooney's personality and life story:Achievement of Flow: Flow is the word that researchers have used to describe optimal performance. When an individual is in...
View ArticleDeacon Don and His Broken Neck Boys: Resilience in Action
Deacon Don Grossnickle isn't a saint. He is, though, walking an elevated path thanks to his Broken Neck Boys.Twelve years ago, Grossnickle, a 63-year-old Chicago minister and educator, was called to...
View ArticleMyth and dream
Many people who have enjoyed and studied both myths and dreams have noted how similar they are in so many respects. Both involve narratives about a hero (the dreamer for dreams and some heroic or...
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Psychology, Hope and the Reversal of Chronic Disease and Aging
Do you, or people you care about, have a chronic medical condition? There are all kinds of chronic diseases, but the ones that are most aggressively killing us - and the health care system - are heart...
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