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Learning From Our Wallets
One of the most sobering truths is this: Our spending says more about us than our whatever values we spout out.
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More Important Than Fear
It can be scary to confront your teenager about her recent behavior changes.
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A Helping Hand
I wouldn’t go quite this far when trying to teach my kids self-sufficiency, but I like the spirit of this quote.
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Hurry Hurry, Step Right Up
Invariably, when I am in a hurry to check out at the grocery store, something will happen to make my line slower than a your average snail.
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The Danger for Talented Kids
The world loves a good child prodigy. We celebrate precocious, otherworldly-talented youngsters like Magi to Messiahs, marveling at the youngest violinist, or mathematician, or Alabama football recruit.
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Stop Doing Your Duty
I know this may sound crazy, but contrary to what your grandparents may have told you, duty and obligation and honor are not the highest values of civilization. And they’re among the worst values for creating great relationships.
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Survival of the…. Responsive
It’s amazing how some popular quotes we all say are actually misquotes.
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SpankFree Parenting Part 1: Can We Have a ScreamFree Conversation?
[Before you start reading this, please note: this article is a bit longer than what you may be used to. I’m inviting us all into a thoughtful conversation about an emotion-filled topic, and I find that hard to do in our modern brief blog format.] Years ago, when we at ScreamFree were just starting out, […]