Category: Parenting
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The 10 Tasks of Adolescence & the 5 Basics of Parenting
This post is a summary of the MIT Raising Teens report which is available on the MIT website (links provided below the post). “An extraordinary body of research exists on the powerful ways in which parents and families make a difference in the lives of teens. Yet, little of this knowledge has been reaching the…
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Guilt and Mistakes
The basic freedom we have in life is the freedom to make mistakes. If we can’t make (reasonable) mistakes and learn from them, what freedom do we really have? “The first time it is an accident, the second time it is a decision.” My girlfriend likes to say: “The first time it is an accident,…
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Improve your Stories: use more “therefore”s and “but”s
“What if a writer is trying to tell a story and nothing much happens, nothing is resolved…” How to Tell A Boring Story Use: “and then this happened”. The essential ingredient of a boring (it is going nowhere) story is the “and then this happened”… “and then this happened”… “and then this happened” structure. There…
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15 Questions To Ask Your Kids To Help Them Have Good Mindsets
David William wrote this post at Lifehack, but I find that I have gone back a couple of times now to find these questions. I was on a bike ride along Tibidabo mountain last night with my daughter (8) and I asked her a couple of these questions. I get some profound answers. Jim Collins…