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  • Why Stress Is One of the Best Predictors of High Life Satisfaction

    Why Stress Is One of the Best Predictors of High Life Satisfaction0

    My life is messed up, why can’t I get my act together? Most of us have heard a variation of this talk track in our heads, or we’ve heard it from others. If only, we think, I didn’t have this problem, then everything would be all right. We feel burdened by what seems to be

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  • Teaching Children ‘No’ in the Era of #MeToo

    Teaching Children ‘No’ in the Era of #MeToo0

    Children aren’t born knowing what no means. You have to teach them. But how? For starters, you have to know what it means yourself. Most people seem to think no means something such as: “I say no and the other person will obey me because they will realize the sacredness of my person.” While that

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  • Child Deaths Fall Across the World, No Thanks to Marxism

    Child Deaths Fall Across the World, No Thanks to Marxism0

    It has never been a safer world in which to be a child. According to the UN, in 1950, most of the world had a child death rate (by age 5) of over 20%, while only a few countries, such as the United States, Cuba, Canada, England, Australia, and New Zealand, had child death rates

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  • Marx and Lincoln: Comrades in the Making?

    Marx and Lincoln: Comrades in the Making?0

    Since Abraham Lincoln is a towering figure in American history, Democrats and Republicans alike seek to cast the man in their own image to support their respective agendas. Both sides might want to be careful with such a move. In reality, Lincoln was far more radical than those on the Left or Right would be comfortable

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  • Adolescents Have a Fundamental Need to Contribute

    Adolescents Have a Fundamental Need to Contribute0

    No longer children but not yet adults, adolescents need opportunities to learn and prepare for their entrance into the broader society. But, as schooling increasingly extends the adolescent period and teenagers get dismissed as supposedly selfish and irresponsible, has society forgotten an important developmental need of our youth? As a developmental scientist who focuses on

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  • The Missing Link in Rising Depression Rates?

    The Missing Link in Rising Depression Rates?0

    We’re currently in the throes of winter. Or perhaps that’s second winter, or even third. With the multiple rounds of snow and cold, it’s easy to lose track of where we are. For those of us in northern climes, it’s easy to get the winter blues. A lack of sunshine and yet another snow day

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