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3 Ways that Kids’ Anger Bites Back
78315 years
How many of you were told as a child, “Don’t be mad at your friend. She was just kidding,” or even “It’s not nice to be angry with your parents?” How many of you–gulp–have even uttered messages like these to your own children? Don’t worry; my hand is raised also. Despite the fact that I just wrote a book about helping kids accept and manage angry feelings, sometimes these knee-jerk responses just fly out of my mouth–as they do everyone else’s.
Are they the worst things to say to a child? Well, having worked for several years with abused children, I can definitively say (more…)
New York State Lawmakers Approve Gay Marriage
80215 years
by signewhitson
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg called it a “historic triumph for equality and freedom.” I couldn’t agree more.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110625/ts_nm/us_gaymarriage_newyork
I remember thinking as a child that it was so strange that my parents ever knew a time when black people had to sit at the back of a bus or couldn’t share a bathroom with whites. To me, it made my parents seem instantly old–part of a crazy, mixed up world. (more…)
Passive Aggressive E-Mail at Work
42415 years
Hilarious YouTube clip on passive aggressive e-mail exchanges between co-workers. I use this in all of my Angry Smile workshops. It’s funny because IT’S SO TRUE!
“Today I Said I’m Not Doing Anything…”
52215 years
Stay at Home Moms
by Jennifer Johnson on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 1:09am
A man came home from work and found his three children outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard. The door of his wife’s car was open, as was the front door to the house and there was no sign of the dog. Proceeding into the entry, he found an even bigger mess. A lamp had been knocked over, and the throw rug was wadded against one wall. In the front room the TV was loudly blaring a Cartoon channel, and the (more…)
