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81Five Questions on Women in their 40s
What happens to a woman (physically, emotionally, mentally) when she hits her 40s? In other words, what can you expect a typical woman to feel when she hits this milestone? There is no hard and fast rule. ...
10 comments81Define yourself... in 3 words
MANY YEARS AGO, when I was just starting out as a counseling psychologist, a woman in her 30s came to me with a problem that is not at all unique to people her age. She was distressed by the fact that her...
3 comments83How to Raise an Independent Child – Part 1
OUR GOAL as parents is to raise independent, responsible and resourceful adults and we measure our success by how much we are no longer needed when our children turn 21. In other words, to be successful as...
1 comment77How to Raise an Independent Child - Part 3
Balancing Act: Granting Autonomy and Imposing Discipline You can discipline a child without love but you cannot love a child without disciplining him. Disciplining is one way of saying, “I love you...
0 comments74How to Raise an Independent Child - Part 2
Balancing Act: Concern and Indulgence As parents, we can go to extremes – neglecting our children one time and paying obsessive attention to them the next, perhaps to compensate for the neglect. ...
0 comments72Of wind chimes, bells, and singing bowls
WHEN I TOOK a course on hypnotherapy in graduate school, my teacher used sounds to alter our state of consciousness. He would ask us to close our eyes and then play a tape of temple bells ringing. In no time...
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73Think outside the box
CAN YOU CONNECT the nine dots on this page, with just four straight lines, and without lifting your pencil or retracing the lines? Solving this popular puzzle is an exercise that Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, an...
14 comments72How to help children learn -- and love learning!
HOW CAN WE help our children learn -- and love learning? The first thing we can do is to talk to our children. Engage them in conversation. Elicit their opinions. Listen to them. Answer their questions. I...
3 comments70A Coming-of-Age Story
“NO, NO, Alessandro. God does not want you to do this. If you do this, you will go to hell.” This is Sister Marie Claire’s nth recount of how St. Maria Goretti -- a girl my age --fends off...
2 comments69Learning with the whole brain
IF YOU LOOK at the human brain from a horizontal perspective, you will see that the cortex consists of two distinct halves -- the cerebral hemispheres. They contain two sets of cortical lobes which gradually...
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