Corporate creeps set a tone
IT’S BEEN A tough few years for American families. In fact, with near financial ruin of Wall Street, the triumph of nastiness in national civil society and now an ecological catastrophe that reads like it is straight out of a Hollywood horror film playing out in the Gulf of Mexico it’s been tough for America, period.
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Remember those nasty yellow berries
THERE ARE MANY branching paths to learning, but one of the most important is a fascinating tendency of the human brain to latch onto negative experience. Neuroscientists sometimes call it “stickiness,” the unerring tendency of the brain to dwell upon negative experience more than positive.
Mark Taylor |
The case against adolescence
WHEN YOU HEAR the word adolescent, what leaps to mind?
For most adults, some pimple-faced mash-up of a sullen, surly almost-adult wrapped up in selfish preoccupation, angst, drama, and permanent ear buds pops up.
Mark Taylor |
The porn problem
NO DOUBT PORNOGRAPHY is unsettling to many; the topic raises issues affecting parenting and the culture of the communities our children are raised in. To begin, consider a few facts...
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Great job!
WHAT I LOVE about working with adolescents is every single one of them comes with a highly refined, built-in B.S. detector. Now, unfortunately, the detector is too often turned off when dealing with peers. But when it comes to interactions with parents, teachers, and other adults, the adolescent B.S. detector is turned on and sensitively tuned in 24/7 to sniff out the faintest whiff of silly adult puffery.
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Wellness: Clear, calm, concerned
NOTHING HEATS THINGS up around the dinner table (or the counselor’s office, for that matter) faster than the issue of teen family chores left undone. Parents will turn shades of scarlet as they splutter on endlessly about responsibility, survival in the real world, and tales of milking camels in snowstorms when they were growing up.
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Wellness: Invest in What Matters
With shrinking investment accounts and eroding home values taking a chunk out of everyone’s net worth it’s time to assess your parenting portfolio of the life assets you provide your kids that can withstand whatever the stock market does.
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Wellness: Kids and television
SEVERAL MONTHS AGO a single mom wrote me in frustration about increasing friction with her young adolescent son about access to computer gaming. He complained bitterly he was the “only kid” who wasn’t permitted to play video games which left him outside the group of kids who played.
Mark L. Taylor |
Wellness: Toward Meeting the Needs of Children in Divorce
WHEN TWO POWERFUL forces collide, it is those caught between who suffer, whether the conflict is between political parties, nations, or a family. Sometimes the collision just pinches those caught in the middle. Often it can annihilate those who can’t get out of the way.
Mark L. Taylor |
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