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  • Are We Failing to Teach Boys how to Treat Women?

    Are We Failing to Teach Boys how to Treat Women?2

    Over the weekend, I came across an interesting book entitled The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hall Iggulden. Recognizing that many of today’s boys no longer know how to do essential “boy things” such as tying knots, building tree forts and go-carts, or making other tools and gadgets, the book undertakes to give

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  • A Brain Teaser on the Power of Context

    A Brain Teaser on the Power of Context0

    In his book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell has a chapter called “The Power of Context.” The power of context shows how people’s decisions are highly influenced by the circumstances in which they are making a decision or presented information. For instance, a seminarian who had just heard the parable of the Good Samaritan might

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  • A (Seemingly) Simple Way to Feel Happier

    A (Seemingly) Simple Way to Feel Happier0

    Doing good things for others, even on a small scale, seems to increase one’s sense of well-being and happiness more than things done to help one self. So concludes a new study in the journal Emotion (Nelson et al., 2016). Dr. Jeremy Dean at PsyBlog sums it up as follows: “…as people do nice things for

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  • What Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Jungle Book’ Gets Right About Rules

    What Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Jungle Book’ Gets Right About Rules0

    The latest issue of National Geographic arrived at our house with a dazzling cover story on Yellowstone National Park, full of images of grizzly bears, wolves, elk, and bison. Yellowstone is a wild place “filled with wonders—fierce animals, deep canyons, scalding waters—that are magnificent to behold but fretful to engage,” and the issue asks whether

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  • We Need to Stop Pushing Everyone Toward College

    We Need to Stop Pushing Everyone Toward College0

    Last year, Pew Charitable Trusts reported that eight in ten Americans are in debt. Much of that debt stems from home mortgage loans, but as a new chart from Slate demonstrates, the last ten years have also seen an explosion in debt from student loans. Such an explosion is not surprising considering the push to

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  • Sexual Harassment Training Isn’t Just a Waste of Time: It’s Harmful

    Sexual Harassment Training Isn’t Just a Waste of Time: It’s Harmful0

    The last time you had to sit through a training program or sign your office’s fine-print disclosure on sexual harassment policy, you probably thought you were just wasting your time. You were wrong: Research suggests that efforts to raise awareness and train employees about sexual harassment may be worse than a waste. They may actually

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  • Schools Might Want to Reconsider the Push for Devices in the Classroom

    Schools Might Want to Reconsider the Push for Devices in the Classroom0

    It’s been a rough week for electronic devices. First there was the news that smartphones – with their continual news alerts and notifications – lead to increased inattentiveness and hyperactivity. Then there was the report that British teachers suspected parental phone usage as the reason behind the decline in the conversation ability of preschoolers.  

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  • One Simple Way to Keep Your Child from Being a Reading Statistic

    One Simple Way to Keep Your Child from Being a Reading Statistic0

    Between 2011 and 2015 the number of American adults who didn’t read a book in the course of a single year went from 1 in 5 to fewer than 1 in 4. And if fewer American adults are reading, chances are that fewer American children are being read to as well. Such a scenario is

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  • Ladies, You Need to Stop Husband-Shaming

    Ladies, You Need to Stop Husband-Shaming0

    Over the years, in posts on Facebook groups for mothers, I’ve seen my share of women talking smack about their husbands. Writing to hundreds (sometimes thousands) of other women, many of whom they don’t know, wives will unburden themselves about the latest insensitive things their husbands have done. The complaints run the gamut from real

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