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The Child Who Falls Apart After School
The teacher describes your child as pleasant, cooperative, and helpful. You briefly wonder whether there has been a clerical error. At home, the backpack lands, complaints begin, a meltdown follows,...
The Power of Enough
There is a peculiar habit many of us have mastered. We spend years building a life we hope will make us happy-and then become too busy improving it to actually live it. We need more money. More...
What Can Wait—and What Cannot
"Let me just finish this." It is a reasonable thing to say. We have work to complete, messages to answer and responsibilities that do not disappear because someone wants our attention. Yet we can...
I’m Not Arguing. I’m Just Explaining Why I’m Right.
I recently came across a cocktail napkin bearing this wonderfully honest sentence: "I am not arguing. I am just explaining why I am right." It is funny because most of us recognize the character...
Waiting for the Next Finish Line
Most of us have become remarkably skilled at postponing our lives. We tell ourselves that things will settle down after this week, after the project is finished, after the kids get through this...