“They took all the trees, put them in a tree museum. Then they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see them. Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve lost ’til it’s gone? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” […]
Parenting Advice for the New Millenium
“Parenting today is a wildly challenging, confusing job, far beyond anything most of us expected.” -Ron Taffel, Ph.D. This is how family therapist and child-rearing expert, Ron Taffel, begins his most recent book for parents, Childhood Unbound: Saving Our Kids’ Best Selves–Confident Parenting in a World of Change. What I love most about this […]
Book signing, Presentation in Ventura
Bank of Books Bookstore 748 E. Main St. Ventura, CA Saturday, January 14, 2-3 PM How’s Your Family Really Doing? 10 Keys to a Happy Loving Family Don MacMannis, Ph.D., and Debra Manchester MacMannis, M.S.W., will be doing a book signing for How’s Your Family Really Doing? 10 Keys to a Happy Loving Family. This […]
Did You Say Thank You Today?
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart This quote really got me thinking. People generally pray for something. And we generally pray […]
Money Doesn’t Always Make You Happy
The World Health Organization recently released research looking at the levels of depression around the world. In their interviews of 90,000 people from 18 different countries, they found something that may surprise you. Their study revealed that citizens of rich countries are more likely to suffer from a major depression, at least once in their […]
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computers, died on October 5th after a prolonged battle with pancreatic cancer. His legacy will live on. What family has not been affected by the personal computer, the iphone, ipod or itunes. Another part of his legacy are some important messages to remember as we make critical life choices or […]
