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Choose Your Own Adulthood
The greatest adventure in life is the transition into adulthood. Nothing compares to the newfound freedoms, possibilities, and responsibilities that come with life on your own. As my daughter began
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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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Praise Less, Challenge More
Starting in the late 1960s, studies showed kids who demonstrated high self-esteem also demonstrated high levels of accomplishment. So, we all figured we should start praising kids into feeling good about themselves, and protecting kids from failures so they won’t feel bad about themselves.
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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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ScreamFree Politics?
“Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.” (Ambrose Bierce) Ahh, the season of rampant reactivity is upon us. There is nothing quite like U.S. Presidential elections to elevate the volume and escalate the tensions. I’ve been approached on numerous occasions to develop a program, or write a book, on ScreamFree […]
