Archive for August, 2009

Listed by most recent articles first.

• Teaching Your Baby Sign Language Can Benefit Both of You
  Should parents use baby sign language? Baby sign language—a specialized sign language used to communicate with preverbal infants and toddlers—has become increasingly popular over the last few decades. It is intended to help very young children ...
• Unhealthy Self-Talk: Yelling at Myself
  I felt like the magazine was yelling at me. As I read the borrowed copy of “Runner’s World,” article after article made me feel like I was not running enough. I identify myself ...
• My Adversity, My Son
  I watched "Hawthorne" on TNT tonight. One of the story lines was about a woman who came into the ER with a broken arm and during the examination she was discovered to have many bruises ...
• Serving Up Guilt
  Alongside love, food, and perhaps gifts, guilt is usually on the menu when adult children visit their parents on holidays and other occasions -- and we’ve all tasted it. “Why can’t you stay longer? You’re ...
• Conquering Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is one of the most difficult conditions for anyone to bear. Many who encounter life-threatening events or situations that threaten physical or emotional safety become burdened by a variety of intense ...
• Who Said It’s Not Your Affair?: Part 2
  No one is immune to an affair. They can happen in any marriage and - according to some research - do in up to 45 percent of them. Luckily, most marriages survive beyond ...
• Purge: Rehab Diaries
  In our society, eating disorders are mostly misunderstood and glamorized. We’re told that everyone with an eating disorder is skin and bones. That just by looking at someone we can easily spot the starvation, the ...
• White Privilege, Heterosexual Privilege, and Liberal Guilt
  First there was white privilege. White privilege isn’t something I thought about until I was confronted with a bulletin board full of it. I was at a Unitarian church I had sporadically attended and had ...
• Ordinary Heroes
  Last night I went to a convenience store. I was joking with one of the two female cashiers working the late night shift when this guy stormed in, shouting obscenities, totally agitated. I was scared—sure ...
• Who Said It’s Not Your Affair? Part 1
  When politicians make the headlines for having an affair, people often respond by taking the moral high ground. Though affairs of ordinary people do not make it into the news, the truth is that any ...
• How Do We Stop Bullying in Schools?
  The best and most obvious way to stop bullying in schools is for parents to change the way they parent their children at home. Of course, this is much easier said than done and ...
• Hiding Behind the Pulpit with Bipolar Disorder
  I have an illness that affects nearly 1 out of every 17 Americans, and affects 1 out of every 5 families. This disease is chronic in nature, and can only be controlled, not cured. It ...
• Honors Students Tell You How To Make the Grades
  Every year I ask the students in my upper-level psychology class how many of them find college to be easier than high school. Two-thirds to three-quarters of the class usually raise their hands. Sometimes they ...
• Ready or Not: Immature But Headed to College
  Colleges and new high school graduates have what I think is a strange idea. They think every freshman is an adult who can make his or her own decisions. Students think going off to college ...
• Too Much Togetherness Solution: A Hat
  As a child I remember my great aunt saying irritably, “I promised you ‘for better or for worse’ but not for lunch!” ...