Radical Optimism About Teenagers?
Going through airport security this past Friday en route to San Francisco, my wife, son and I finally reached the agent for the last of several ID verification checks. The agent scanned and closely eyeballed [...]
Sext-idemic
A piece Tuesday morning on "Good Morning America" suggests, correctly, that sexting is on the rise among teenagers. They also note that, with the advent of smart phones that can make video segments, sexting of [...]
The Available Sibling
I've been fielding a lot of questions lately from parents concerned about sibling rivalry amongst their teens and tweens. So, here are a few notes on sibling strife: - Blatant favoritism by a parent drives [...]
A Word on Gender Roles
Here are a few thoughts on children and gender roles: I encourage parents to follow and support their childrens' interests, independent of expected gender roles. There is a greater likelihood, in my experience, that a [...]
Setting the Stage
My wife and I met more than twenty years ago in an improv class at Chicago's famed Second City. So it's fun when we head down there to take in the latest show, which we [...]
Review of “The Shift”, by Dr. Wayne Dyer
We spend so much of our lives pushing, don't we, striving to attain some status, acquire some thing, know some important person, or earn some amount of money? We errantly believe that once we make [...]
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