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  • Physician: Raising Happy Kids Shouldn’t Be the Main Goal

    Physician: Raising Happy Kids Shouldn’t Be the Main Goal0

    In the years when I spent a good deal of time sitting beside the piano, coaching kids of all ages to count, to curve their fingers, and to phrase their music properly, I heard a common refrain over and over. That refrain was often uttered by the parent of the child, and went something like

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  • Physician: American Children ‘Immersed in a Culture of Disrespect’

    Physician: American Children ‘Immersed in a Culture of Disrespect’0

    Let’s face it. Almost every child has likely had some type of meltdown in public, causing great embarrassment to both the child’s parent and to other witnesses in the vicinity. But while such disrespectful behavior is embarrassing at age two, it’s downright horrifying the older a child gets. Dr. Leonard Sax recently experienced one of

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  • Physician Explains What’s Wrong with the APA’s Masculinity Guidelines

    Physician Explains What’s Wrong with the APA’s Masculinity Guidelines0

    Family medical doctor and psychologist Leonard Sax has garnered a reputation for being a voice of common sense when it comes to matters of parenting. According to Sax, today’s children operate in a “culture of disrespect,” a culture which many parents have fostered by trying to be their child’s friend rather than parent. Dr. Sax’s

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  • Physician Explains the Most Beneficial Approach to Quality Family Time

    Physician Explains the Most Beneficial Approach to Quality Family Time0

    By now we’ve probably all heard about the father arrested for playing catch with his daughter in a park. Regardless of whether you think the lockdown should continue, be lifted, or if you’re undecided on the issue, most people would agree that this incident was a bit heavy-handed. After all, one of the good things

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  • Phubbing is a Sign You Might Have a Problem

    Phubbing is a Sign You Might Have a Problem0

    We have all been there. We’ve been slighted by the person we are speaking with as they reach for their smartphone to check a social media notification. This practice of snubbing is so common that in 2012, the Macquarie Dictionary helped to  create the new word “phubbing” (a combination of phone and snubbing) to describe

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  • Phrase of the Day: Nostalgie de la Boue

    Phrase of the Day: Nostalgie de la Boue0

    • August 4, 2015

    Tom Wolfe, probably most famous for authoring The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff, has a fascinating explanation of the phrase in his book Radical Chic. In it, Wolfe lampoons wealthy, New York socialites of the 1970s for embracing groups like the Black Panthers who ultimately wanted to upend the social order that

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