In terms of emotional oversimplification, children rarely learn to look below the surface of the most salient emotions to understand how emotions such as anger, sarcasm, or arrogance may be triggered by other emotions. More simply, they are not taught to do this. More >>

Know your role.  With political correctness, the line between adult and child has blurred: everyone is "equal," and no one should be offended. But political correctness doesn't work in the parent-child relationship. More >>

There are lots of ways to be smart!  We need a range of abilities--analytical, creative, social & emotional, and practical--and the motivation to use them.  Yes, we are probably born with tendencies toward particular strengths and thinking styles in these areas, but all of them are affected by what we learn and experience. More >>

How often is that we see people in our extended families and our community that believe that their family gets along just fine and doesn't have any problems, only to find that screaming, yelling, name calling, and physical aggressiveness is almost the norm? More >>

Keith McVey lives in Akron, Ohio. He's 53 years old and is a mailman. Everyone in Akron knows him. Recently, he saved the life of another person for the third time in his life.  While delivering the mail, he noticed a panicked man trying to revive his unconscious friend at the back of a pickup.  "He said his buddy wasn't breathing," explained McVey.  "I thought, well, let's see what's going on.  Sometimes you just have to act." More >>

These are my opening comments from my radio program today: I talk every day about doing the right thing.  And yesterday, I did the wrong thing.  More >>

When the girls get together, here's what happens.... More >>

There seems to be a general unwillingness to point out that some people are just evil.  I was frustrated when psychiatrist Keith Ablow wrote an essay on foxnews.com espousing the "understanding" of women and men who prey sexually on children.  He "formatted" them all as mentally ill. More >>

Here's an interesting question regarding the timing of rewards as a factor in behavioral motivation More >>

How many times have you gone into your closet to choose something to wear, and even though your closet is stuffed with things (some still with the tags on them), you've stood there frustrated and yelled:  "But I don't have anything to wear!!"  Imagine this:  you go to your closet to choose what to wear for the day, and you find only six items.  Does that make it easier?  That's the premise behind a recent Web challenge at sixitemsorless.com - participants were to go an entire month wearing only six items already found in their closet More >>