“I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single […]
Nature vs. Nurture: What Parents Should Know About Their Child’s Temperament
“Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form.” -Jerome Kagan The debate about just how much of our behavior and personality is genetic vs. environmental, or nature vs. nurture, has raged on for the last hundred years. Twenty or thirty years ago, in an ongoing effort to […]
The Beauty of Diversity
“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.” -Margaret […]
Accepting our Differences
The world is made more interesting and more beautiful because of our diversity and complexity. Unfortunately, this same diversity can also bring pain and estrangement. Families of the future need to know how to embrace and accept the special gifts and challenges that each individual member contributes to the whole. One of the subjects, besides […]
Accepting Our Differences in a Complex World
“In a republic we must learn to combine intensity of conviction with a broad tolerance of difference of conviction. Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted.” -Theodore Roosevelt Not only within our extraordinarily rich and complex world are there vast differences […]
