“Happy!” is usually the resounding answer. Christine Carter’s short article “How to Raise Happy Kids” in the Huffington Post gives three deceptively simple tips. [The article is to highlight her book Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents.] One of which is praising a child appropriately. This is one thing […]
Why It Matters
“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is no new road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over […]
Modeling Behavior
Well, Liliana and I went to the doctor this morning to get her bright pink cast off, and instead the doctor decided, after removing it and x-raying her thumb, to put another one back on–for two more weeks! The bone is not healed yet. Let me tell you. The cast probably bothers us more than […]