why do parents feel the need to stifle their anger when their kids are pushing their buttons. Will their bosses, teachers, and principles allow them to throw a tantrum for milk before the first period or cry because of they didn’t get a promotion?… No! I don’t think as parents we...
My autonomy is a socially embedded form of autonomy. This isn’t easy to do and I don’t always get the balance right, but I would suggest that actively being conscious of the need to do this yields better results than just winging it does. The added bonus is that making an effort to...
As you may have heard, I recently shared a stage with Augusten Burroughs as he passed through Durham on a book tour, and a surprising number of commenters from this very blog showed up.They flew and drove from various distant parts of the colonies, and what do you know:people you’ve ...
Yes, most everyone agrees there are parts of the government that could be improved. But, improvements are needed in most organizations, relationships, and even structures. Because your house needs a few repairs, do you destroy it? Destroying something is always easier than fixing it. Once destr...
She is a complete partisan hack, who is willing to say and do anything at all to gain the Fed Reserve chair position. She will go along with the insane ideas of the progressive wing of the democratic party, which will further destroy any semblance of economic sanity at the Fed. K-Agr...
The sheik himself has made his opinion on such loose talk known: “It is said that human scorpions dwell on the earth in the form of gossipers and conspirators, who trouble souls, destroy relationships, and subvert the spirit of communities and teams.” (Neither Sheik Mohammed nor Haya ...
yet it is common at Southwest.You don’t see it with most other airlines.Southwest knows the value in their service lies in transporting people.If their planes are not in the air, they’re not transporting people.Do HP’s or IBM’s whole organization understand the ...
Delicate electronics tend to not do well inside a jello ball. And the human body tends to not like having foreign objects in it. But the brain interfaces of the future are intended to last forever without any problems. This means that the device will likely need to be hermetically sealed ...
Thursday nights my parents went bowling, and we kids stayed home alone. It was the night of Gene Roddenberry's originalStar Trek, and the program made a big impression on me. I came to accept its notion that humans had a future in space, Western-style, with big heroes and adventures. ...
Virgins: That John Lennon had an unstoppable will that, unchecked, could redeem or destroy his life, or could undo the Beatles. When the group learned that Lennon and Ono had started using heroin, the Beatles didn’t know what to do about it. “This was a fairly big shocker for us,”...