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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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Your Stop Sign
“In the name of God, stop a moment. Cease your work, look around.” (Leo Tolstoy) I know that we are all busy beyond measure these days. If it’s not the office demanding your attention, it’s the laundry, or an aging parent, a needy friend, an empty refrigerator. But guess what – all of that will […]
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Color My World
“Life is like an ever shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change and all patterns alter.” (Sharon Salzberg) Ask a number of parents how they feel at the end of a particularly hard day with a child and one word will crop up more than any other: overwhelmed. It is easy to get lost in the […]
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The Power of Nonconformity
“The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.” (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) Rosa Parks is often used as an example of what it means to be a true revolutionary. Her statement, “You do what […]