Now can we quit fretting about gamers?
November 22, 2014 Comments Off on Now can we quit fretting about gamers?

Science Alert

While the data did appear to show a link between an increase in violent video game consumption and a decrease in youth violence, just as it did for films after 1990, Ferguson is not prepared to say the result is anything other than a coincidence. But what he can say for sure is that while media violence is definitely being consumed more now than ever before, there is absolutely no clear evidence to link media violence with societal violence.
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How to cope with a partner’s ADD/ADHD
November 5, 2014 Comments Off on How to cope with a partner’s ADD/ADHD

It’s a fact; a person with ADD is hard to love. You never know what to say. It’s like walking through a minefield. You tiptoe around; unsure which step (or word) will be the one that sets off an explosion of emotion. It’s something you try to avoid.

People who have ADD/ADHD are suffering. Life is more difficult for them than the average person. Everything is intense and magnified. Their brilliant minds are constantly in gear creating, designing, thinking and never resting.
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Do you know what to do when your child gets angry?
October 15, 2014 Comments Off on Do you know what to do when your child gets angry?

Aha Parenting

“Sending children away to get control of their anger perpetuates the feeling of ‘badness” inside them…Chances are they were already feeling not very good about themselves before the outburst and the isolation just serves to confirm in their own minds that they were right.” — Otto Weininger, Ph.D. Time-In Parenting

When our kids get angry, it pushes buttons for most of us. We’re not perfect, but we try to be loving parents. Why is our child lashing out like this?
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How to really stop abortion.
October 5, 2014 Comments Off on How to really stop abortion.

Slate

So the debate boils down to this: Which approach can overcome the weakness of human nature? Can the abstinence crowd find a way to keep people chaste? Can the contraception crowd find a way to make people stick to their birth control? Can either side deliver the bottom line: fewer abortions?

A study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine (and outlined in Slate by Darshak Sanghavi and Amanda Marcotte) strikes a major blow for the contraception camp.
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The frightening power of the parenthood religion
October 2, 2014 Comments Off on The frightening power of the parenthood religion

QZ –

Sometime between when we were children and when we had children of our own, parenthood became a religion in America. As with many religions, complete unthinking devotion is required from its practitioners. Nothing in life is allowed to be more important than our children, and we must never speak a disloyal word about our relationships with our offspring. Children always come first. We accept this premise so reflexively today that we forget that it was not always so.
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Will your teen daughter become sexually active?
September 13, 2014 Comments Off on Will your teen daughter become sexually active?

PsyPost

The analysis found that adolescents tended to be more sexually active themselves if they perceived their peers as a) more sexually active, b) more approving of having sex, and c) exerting more pressure on them to be sexually active. “What adolescents think that their peers do (role modelling) seems to be most important: adolescents who think that their peers engage in sex are more likely to engage in sex themselves. Peers’ approval of having sex, or peer pressure to have sex, also matter, but seem to matter less,” explains lead researcher, Daphne van de Bongardt.
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What predicts a happy and fulfilled life?
September 4, 2014 Comments Off on What predicts a happy and fulfilled life?

Art of Manliness –

Nothing quite like the Grant Study has ever been attempted; as Vaillant puts it, this research represents “one of the first vantage points the world has ever had on which to stand and look prospectively at a man’s life from eighteen to ninety.” The mountains of data collected over more than seven decades have become a rich trove for examining what factors present in a man’s younger years best predict whether he will be successful and happy into old age.
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Food for thought…
August 16, 2014 Comments Off on Food for thought…

Imgur –

The image mostly speaks for itself — disturbingly so. Think it over — what colour is most of our world? What colour are the vast majority of our public institutions, social networks, political leaders and churches?

(For full-sized image, just right click and open in a new tab — or click the link to the main image host.)
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I’ll bet you’re right and she’s WRONG!!!
August 14, 2014 Comments Off on I’ll bet you’re right and she’s WRONG!!!

Huffington Post

At the end of the study, researchers found that when parents argued, their relationship with their child was negatively affected. However, mothers were able to recover from this fairly quickly and the next day, even showed improvement in their parent-child relationship.

“Moms appeared to compensate for their marital tension,” said Chrystyna D. Kouros, lead author of the study, in a press release.
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Perhaps we’re doing something right…
May 27, 2014 Comments Off on Perhaps we’re doing something right…

Vox

The Centers for Disease Control released a monster report last week on the state of Americans’ health. The 511-page report makes one thing abundantly clear: teens are behaving better right now than pretty much any other time since the federal government began collecting data.

It’s short, it’s sweet, it’s mainly comprised of charts and it’s the perfect buzz-kill for the usual narrative of, “Kids these days are never gonna amount to anything.”
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Session Notes

Now can we quit fretting about gamers?

How to cope with a partner’s ADD/ADHD

Do you know what to do when your child gets angry?

How to really stop abortion.

The frightening power of the parenthood religion

Will your teen daughter become sexually active?

What predicts a happy and fulfilled life?

Food for thought…

I’ll bet you’re right and she’s WRONG!!!

Perhaps we’re doing something right…

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