Rethinking What We Say to Our Kids
I Just Want You to Be Happy: No, We Want Much, Much More for You In the 1950’s, a group of psychologists began promulgating ideas related to the pursuit of […]
December 21, 2017
The Namby Pamby Effect: Are Our Kids Growing Up Soft and Confused?
When Jacob was four years old, he earned his first, shiny trophy, courtesy of participation in a nearby t-ball league. As he grew older, trophies, plaques, and medals for participation
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Want to Be Drug Free? It’s Time to Live More Simply
Something is taking shape in our communities today. Creeping from the shadows, emerging from within, is a cry for a more holistic existence than the one we’re living in. It
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A New Vision of Technology and Our Youth
Over the past decade and a half, I have written a lot about the issues of media/technology and our youth of today. Most of it is available on my website
Why 1:1 Is Not the Answer: Taking a Closer Look at Technology in the Schools
In the educational climate of today, nothing is perceived as more progressive than finding ways to digitalize everything students are doing. What started out as Smart Boards and audio/video projectors
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Do You Know What Is Coming into Your Youth’s Phone?
It is 11:30 P.M on a Thursday night. Your 13-year-old daughter is asleep. Suddenly she awakes to a ding from her phone. She quickly realizes that one of her best
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Say What? Understanding That What We Say—and How We Say It—Changes Lives
In 1963, Lyman Wynne and Margaret Singer introduced the concept of communication deviance (CD) to describe fragmented patterns of interaction that were characterized by vagueness, interrupting, lack of closure, and
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How The Almighty Norm Can Dilute Advice We Give and Receive
“Binge-Watching Television Spikes Blood Clot Risk.” This was the headline of a recent article that came out in MD Magazine. The researchers looked at over 86,000 participants in regards to
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How Following the Trail of “Cutting Edge” and “Convenient” Can Distort Reality
In the late 1990’s, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) set out to provide the most extensive review ever conducted of the effectiveness of ADHD medications in children. It
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Now: The Opportunity of a Lifetime
Do the present duty—bear the present pain—enjoy the present pleasure—and leave emotions and ‘experiences’ to look after themselves. That’s the programme, isn’t it? C.S. Lewis The river was running through