…to solve, leading to an escalating cycle that can go on and on and on. In my experience, making sense of frustration holds the most promise to breaking this cycle,…

…of our young. They use technology in their day-to-day lives to keep in touch with each other in a multiple of ways, including social media sites, cell phones, and texting….

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rub: science prefers to ignore what it can’t explain. For example, science stutters even at the thought of love. But to pretend that something doesn’t exist just because we cannot…

…and ourselves as been similar in this regard. Initially it seemed to me that the subject of dependence was only one of a myriad of topics that pertained to today’s…

…we depend upon to preserve order and justice in our society. The sense of anger and betrayal runs deep.    There is also a growing realization that racism is systemic in…

…cannot possibly take care of them. As evidence of this dynamic, you will find that most children today go to school not to learn about their world but rather to…

…sound “soft,” or “too easy” to be true. It is anything but that. Unfortunately, the ways that we deal with troubling child and youth behaviours today – through systems of…

…missing maturity in his 1996 book, Sibling Society. If immaturity was a recognizable problem 20 years ago, it has become an epidemic of tragic proportions today. Over ten years ago,…

Today the people that are often filling in for parents are ‘strangers’ to them. The challenge is to help a child accept the substitute adults in their life by building…

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