“No” is a complete sentence.” -Anne Lamott “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt Are you frustrated because you have to tell your child to do something ten times before she listens? Are you exhausted because you are doing more than your fair share of the housework? How often do […]
How To Enhance Your Kids’ (And Your Own) Motivation: Part 2
”The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” -Norman Vincent Peale In Part 1 […]
Top 10 Tools for Surviving Family Vacations
Now that school’s out, everyone wants to play and go on vacation. Having a flashlight and flares for a car trip is a great idea. So is a travel bag of games and CDs. But what about a repair kit for family feelings? Or a road map to harmony? Even a dream vacation in an […]
Making Peace with Painful Memories
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” -Lois Lowry, author of The Giver I am writing today inspired by this week’s celebration of Memorial Day in the United States, a tradition that began after the Civil War to honor those who lost […]
Joy=Love–Fear and Other Emotional Equations for Happiness
“Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”– Dr. Viktor Frankl There are a lot of excellent self-help books out there these days. So many, in fact, that it […]
Why Are We Becoming More Lonely?
“All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong?” -from the song, Eleanor Rigby, written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, released in 1966. Being lonely is not just painful, it is a major contributor to a host of health problems including depression, sleep problems, obesity, […]
