Today’s post is the third in a series that I call “The 10 Most Useful Facts about Emotions”. I wrote this for a forthcoming book about parenting. I was trying to find a way to help parents appreciate what I call the emotional hazards of parenting. So, the 10 most useful emotion facts are applied [...]
Today’s post is the second in a series that I call “The 10 Most Useful Facts about Emotions”. I wrote this for a forthcoming book about parenting. I was trying to find a way to help parents appreciate what I call the emotional hazards of parenting. So, the 10 most useful emotion facts are applied [...]
Not too long ago I was driving on a highway when a large truck switched lanes ahead of me and struck a pile of debris in the middle of the road. I watched as an 18-inch-long steel rod was thrown from the debris and straight at my car. The rod seemed to move in slow [...]
Nearly 15 years ago, I submitted a grant proposal for a mentoring study that wasn’t funded. Soon after, I switched faculty positions and the idea behind the study was set aside. These days I think a lot about that idea and its approach to mentoring. The idea was this: Youth at risk don’t need mentors [...]
Children have many relationships and they will have access to a wide range of contexts over the years. The parent-child relationship is but one context among many, and these other contexts can have tremendous influence on the course of their lives. For example, recent studies document the powerful influence that sibling relationships can have on [...]
