BabyLand is a gated community in more ways than one
The game changes for people when they have kids and some of their friends don’t. But how, and can the situation be any better? Continue Reading
Parents
The Blunder Years, Episode 7: Aging parents + “Everybody is nuts”
A conversation about taking care of your parents, the 20-40-60 rule about human empathy, women at work, and more. Continue Reading
Bullshit Studies 101: “Parenting Time Doesn’t Matter.”
I quote studies and research on here all the time, because, well, frankly I’m personally not that intelligent — so I figure if anyone is going to assign any veracity to anything I say, I should probably back it up… Continue Reading
We’re about to embark on a generation of narcissists, eh?
“Research shows that narcissism is higher in Western than non-Western countries, and suggests that narcissism levels have been steadily increasing among Western youth over the past few decades,” the authors write in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. You… Continue Reading
Brief thought exercise: if your parents’ marriage is great (bad), will similar elements of your marriage be great (bad)?
Start with a baseline assumption of two parents that stayed together and had a relatively happy marriage — or, if you want, two parents that ultimately separated but maintained a functional, happy environment for the children involved. In either of… Continue Reading