Relationship is Everything

April 25, 2012

One of the core concepts in Privilege of Parenting (the book) is the concept that everything in parenting turns on relationship. Cultivating good relationships with our kids requires addressing three core motivations in life:  feeling safe, feeling loved and feeling empowered. These apply to us grown-ups as well:  if we don’t feel safe then we […]

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XOX Man: The Most Interesting Parent in The World

April 18, 2012

You might think he’s a legend, but he’s my friend.  I’m not going to tell you his name because that’s not the way he rolls. XOX Man doesn’t drink often, but when he does, it’s Italian red wine (and it need not be expensive). XOX Man runs an international company, but he doesn’t get his […]

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Buy This Introverted Book or the Kids Get It (and BTW, my book, “Privilege of Parenting,” is not the same as my blog)

April 11, 2012

To my regular readers I apologize for a post about what you already know.  I truly love and appreciate my blogging community, but I realize that there are those with whom I chat and cross-read posts, and there are those who happen upon this site when searching for information about how to help a child […]

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Getting Fired Up, Quietly, about… Introversion and Sensitivity

April 4, 2012

There is an angel bent over every blade of grass whispering, “Grow!  Grow!” This may be why grass is generally so short. * I’m a bit enchanted by Susan Cain’s Quiet, a book whose principle characters (i.e. Elaine Aron, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) include voices I’ve long known and much appreciated. My first point for today’s blog is […]

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Calling some Quiet, Shy and Highly Sensitive Humans

March 28, 2012

Sometimes I wonder why I blog.  This doesn’t mean that I don’t enjoy it, I do.  Yet in the seemingly silly, unfair, bullying, loud, shallow, cacophony of our world, any intelligent and sensitive being must ask:  “Surely, WTF is the point?” All I can say is, “Don’t call me Shirley.” Seriously, how many readers, Twitter […]

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Body-crushing conditions and Soul-killing economies: On Invisible Children, Invisible Oppressed Workers and Demanding Equity, Fairness and Compassion

March 21, 2012

We’re all busy.  I’ll try to be brief.  I’ll fail.  Thanks for reading.  Thanks for caring. The comments last week in response to my post about Invisible Children reaffirmed my own sense that awareness is important and useful in fomenting social change and co-creating a more compassionate world. Last week a Goldman Sachs executive resigned […]

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Invisible Children on The Couch

March 14, 2012

Step Right Up Folks and See the Invisible Children. “Did you hear anything about this on NPR?” my wife asks? “I think kids are into it because they want a sense of community,” says my fifteen-year-old, “but they are asked to pay three dollars a month and they get posters of a bad guy to […]

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Beyond the Sling: a Hammock for the New Parent’s Soul

March 7, 2012

I got an advance copy of Beyond the Sling, a Real Life Guide to Raising Confident, Loving Children the Attachment Parenting Way by Mayim Bialik, PhD and, in short, I like it. I’m saying yes to more things these days, and I like that too.  I said yes to the publicist’s offer to send me […]

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Computer Shooter on the Couch

February 29, 2012

Perhaps you are one of the 30 million plus people who have viewed the You Tube video, Dad Shoots Daughter’s Computer.  It is certainly a compelling 8 minutes. And while the dad has some points, his final response is terrifying.  However, since comedy is actually all about anxiety, I found myself watching with my fifteen-year-old […]

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Making up our Minds

February 22, 2012

New research on ten to fourteen year old children who have been in homes with abuse, but who show no outward signs of trouble, reveals that their brains are extra-activated in the same regions as soldiers who have been in combat. While on the surface it is obvious that we do not want any children […]

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