Thanks for posting this. I want to give up on my daughter that is 16 that has been having sex, drinking and lying. She has always lied about things that do not make since. Her father and I have taken her car, phone, money and all social media from her. I want so bad to give h...
Unfortunately, if we hadparents who weren’t mentally or emotionally mature, we may have adopted beliefs about ourselves as young, vulnerable children that served to destroy our basic sense of self-worth. For example, our parents may have said things like “No! You’re being bad!” and smac...
After I wrapped up work and house-sitting in September, I would spend October in Europe, and be back by the first week of November, in time to do the Rim-to-Rim hike in Grand Canyon, which had been arranged even before I even knew I was going to Europe. Meanwhile, Wendy had signed...
In the New Year, can we learn to set aside pettiness, and take up our responsibilities — and our privileges — as mature humans? How are we to do this? Our thinking must change. It is up to us to construct a new understanding of who we are — a new vision of what it means to...
The (old) boys in the band chucked a few of their own hits into the stew – Hang On Sloopy, Talking in Your Sleep, Frankenstein etc. But the highlights were still Ringo being er well Ringo and singing, badly but inimitably, numbers like Honey Don’t, I Wanna Be Your Man, Boys, ...
I’ve felt inferior and unequipped, been convinced I’m a terrible person, and have mentally beaten myself up for the so-called failure on my part to ooze affection and all the ooey-gooey wonderfulness mothers should feel and do for their children. ...
“Yes, they do.” “In your unarmed courses, do you practice weapon disarming?” “Oh yes we do. We do Ballistic-Galactic Krav Maga.” “Okay, so, you disarm a knife and a pistol. One is now in your hands. Do you know what do with it? What end the bullet comes out? A safety...
That in itself shows the advantages of more mentally mature people going into education. ‘Smarting’ because someone was two weeks younger than you? Are you for real? How snide and strange. Not everyone can get everything done in one decade. Life goes on and circumstances alter, and often...
In my twenties and thirties, we laughed over cocktails while both planning what to do next and enjoying the moment as it was…. Now, when I find that elusive “click” I often mentally drift back to those days and think of those times and those people. Not with a sense of melancholy,...
a新興国 年轻国家[translate] ajust like they said, this is the age when women are happiest. Mature both mentally and physically. Know what to say and how... 如他们说,这是年龄,当妇女是最愉快的时。 精神上和完全成熟。 知道什么说和怎么…[translate]...