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  • Psychologist: Rules Squash Children’s Creativity

    Psychologist: Rules Squash Children’s Creativity0

    If you would like your children to be creative, don’t give them very many rules. In fact, don’t really make them do much of anything. That seems to be the message of Adam Grant, professor of psychology for Wharton. In a New York Times op-ed, he encourages parents who desire their children to be creative

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  • Psychologist: Rejecting Values and Responsibility Was a Big Mistake

    Psychologist: Rejecting Values and Responsibility Was a Big Mistake1

    In May 2017 LifeWay Research released an interesting survey. It found that 80 percent of Americans were concerned “about declining moral behavior in our nation.” As the survey went on to report, such concern was not unfounded. While 63 percent of the 65+ crowd agreed that right and wrong was objective, or does not change,

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  • Psychologist: Having Children Makes Us Unhappy, Kills Romance

    Psychologist: Having Children Makes Us Unhappy, Kills Romance0

    Dreaming of getting married, having children, and living happily ever after. You might be in for a rude awakening, according to psychologist Matthew D. Johnston. Johnston, the Director of the Marriage and Family Studies Laboratory at Binghamton University in New York, surveyed decades of research on the psychological effects of raising children and shared his

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  • Psychologist: College Students Today ‘Less Resilient’

    Psychologist: College Students Today ‘Less Resilient’0

    “If you can keep your head when all about you   Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,   But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,   Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being

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  • Psychologist: America’s Suicide Crisis Linked to ‘Lack of Meaning’

    Psychologist: America’s Suicide Crisis Linked to ‘Lack of Meaning’0

    As an addendum to my blogpost from a couple of weeks ago (and to Shelia Liaugminas’ subsequent, related post) I would like to share this piece published in the New York Times. Clay Routledge, professor of psychology from North Dakota State University, has tried to account for the alarming rise in suicides across the US

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  • Psychologist: 8 Ways Parents Can Get a Child to Read

    Psychologist: 8 Ways Parents Can Get a Child to Read0

    A friend of mine recently took her two-year-old son out of state to a family wedding for three weeks. When they returned, her son was talking in a fluent and skilled manner. After hearing him speak, a family member of mine noted in amazement how articulate the little boy had become. I laughed and said,

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