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Overcoming Fears and Building Emotional Intelligence

“Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.”    –Karl Menninger If we want to overcome our fears, and most of do, we must first be willing to examine them. Just cultivating awareness of what is going on- naming the sensations without judging and without pushing them away can be the beginning […]

Negative Parentlng of Infants and Toddlers Increases Aggression

Results of a new research study of more than 260 mothers and their children, followed from birth until first grade, were published by University of Minnesota this week. Before the study, researchers believed that the combination of the temperament of the infant and negative parenting, particularly in the toddler phase (think terrible two’s) would put […]