The 4th century BCE Daoist book, Zhuangzi, holds a parable called The Empty Boat. A boater on a swift-flowing river must contend with an empty boat that bangs against his. He deals with it, calmly calculating how to move the empty, drifting boat out of his path. Consider, though, if he would have done the same thing if the other ...
Pixar’s Finding Nemo came out in 2003 and we will bet that 14 years later you did not notice it recreates Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s “Five Stages of Grief” hypothesis. The movie adds support to the running theme of Pixar films: they are all little psychological test cases. The emotional buffet of Inside Out, Up, Brave and others has been well explored ...
Which of your relatives is lactose intolerant? Know anybody with a kid allergic to peanuts? Many diagnoses are casually tossed around in our information-rich society. Few people have celiac disease, but many people claim to need gluten-free foods. Some fastidious people joke they are OCD, but true obsessive-compulsive sufferers do not find the actual condition very funny at all. As ...
Consider this nugget from 1703’s Athenian Mercury, a British periodical: "If I am thinking of committing any great and enormous crime and sin (as adultery), but do not personally and actually commit it, am I guilty of the crime and sin?" You will have to wait until the end of our little say to hear the sage advice from 314 ...
Whether you already have a great relationship with your kids, or are trying to improve upon it, there are plenty of ways to work on your family interactions. No two situations are alike, and of course there's always room for improvement when it comes to your children (sky’s the limit, pal!). If it’s important to you to grow as a parent, ...