A Harrison: The colleagues I rely on most in my therapeutic work with young children are teachers. I know that teachers write about teaching and what it is like to be a teacher much better than I ever could, but as an outsider, I would like to offer some observations from my long coll...
Your childcare provider calls in sick on a day full of meetings. Payment from a contract gig is a month behind. Your day-to-day will always have challenges, big and small. And no matter the size and urgency, they all ask you to use critical thinking to analyze the situation and ...
when it becomes very frequent or seems to be their consistent way of reacting to something they don’t like, it’s time to step in and help them change their behavior.
but rather look for steps in the process that may not be necessary to complete the same high-quality work. It’s easy to get into the daily habit of following processes when there may in fact be an easier way.
As the narrative psychologist Dan McAdams writes eloquently, the stories we tell help us to "reconcile who we imagine we were, are, and might be in our heads and bodies with who we were, are, and might be" in the broader social world—whether that entails social class, gender, race, ...
As shown by Abeler and Jäger (2015) and Bhargava and Manoli (2015), people’s ability to react to tax changes decreases with the complexity of information about the tax system; accordingly, we needed to write the leaflet in such a way that the majority of Swedes would be able to ...
She talked to other women across the country. She met with experts about the questions and answers. She combined this research with observations and examples from her own life. The result was her book, "The Feminine Mystique," published in nineteen sixty-three. The book attacked the popular...
Remembering my rambunctious five-year-olds back at the childcare center, I decided I would put the loudest and rowdiest of the college students in charge of keeping the volume down among the others. I pulled him aside, asked him to be my right-hand man, and then told the others that he...
I’m giving up in really asking him to help with the kids too much because it’s boring with him. It’s more worth my while to cross my fingers and hope he gets a promotion or a higher paying job so we can afford an au pair and then we won’t fight about childcare anymore, I...
Sometimes I think trite, a trivial way where I’m like, seize the moment, seize the day, write an awesome thing that yourself up. Do a little habit in the morning to kind of make it a great day, but below all of that is that exists. It’s definitely that existential, like, ...