Why do some people intimidate us, but not others? It doesn’t matter how confident we feel; there are just some people we get tongue-tied around: It might be their position, their personality or their power. It could be that they just know how to push our buttons, and we don’t know how to respond. […]
Perspective
Swap Christmas with Thanksgiving this week
I think Christmas (or any seasonal holiday) works best when we treat it like Thanksgiving. By itself, Christmas just has too many expectations associated with it: We have to decorate and put up a tree. (I love the result, but not the process.) We have to put up lights on the outside of the […]
How to Keep from Ruining Your Kids
Do you ever feel like a bad parent? You’re doing the best you can. But you have “those moments” – where you yell, or ignore, or over-discipline. You’re exhausted, so you plop them in front of the TV with a box of Cap’n Crunch. You cheat at Candyland just to keep the game from going […]