When it comes time to talk about the birds and bees to their kids, many parents go AWOL, leaving their sprogs to learn about the facts of life from TV, their friends and the internet. No one thinks that this is an ideal situation, so schools step in with sex ed programs. These have always
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Ever had an encounter with a person who, despite all your efforts, is difficult to get along with because he is so disagreeable? If so, Ben Franklin would probably sympathize. His high level of interaction with the public, not to mention his overbearing relatives, likely led him to write the satirical “Rules for Making Oneself
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When was the last time you opened your laptop midconversation or brought your desktop computer to the dinner table? Ridiculous, right? But if you are like a large number of Americans, you have done both with your smartphone. Less than a decade after the introduction of the first iPhone, more people reach for their smartphones first
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Have you ever compared your childhood with that of your own kids? Clint Edwards recently did that in an article for The Washington Post, and what he found was rather alarming. For Edwards, childhood meant riding bikes extensive distances and having pick-up playtimes with any other children who were mutually roaming the neighborhood. For Edwards’
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Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who is credited with founding analytical psychology. He was a prolific writer, and his work is seen as largely influential to psychiatry, philosophy, anthropology, archeology, literature, as well as religious studies. He was very interested in the notions of spirituality, how humans are spiritual beings, and how
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I wanted to be a cop. But when I took the test, they found out my IQ was too high! It sounds like a bad joke. But this actually happened to a Connecticut man when he took the test a number of years, and it’s possible it’s happening at law enforcement departments across the country.
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