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Why You Might Have Trouble Making Friends
Today’s guest blogger is Irene S. Levine, PhD, author of Best Friends Forever: Surviving a Breakup With Your Best Friend and co-author of Schizophrenia for Dummies. Irene discusses about all sorts...
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How the Internet Destroys Our Past
“Say hello to your past,” read the subject line of an email that landed in my junk email box. It was from my old friend Meryl. I hadn’t spoken to her in decades. A few weeks later, we met for coffee....
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Gasoline-On-The-Fire Phrases
A friend told me that one word guaranteed to infuriate his teenage daughter during any disagreement is “relax.” Riders on New York City’s subways were for years irritated by the phrase “Please be...
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What Is The Parenting Recipe For Making Mean Kids?
It’s Anti-Bullying Week and this year’s theme is Stop and Think—Words Can Hurt. Interestingly, for all our focus on how to stop kids from bullying each other, we have precious little research...
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The Irrational Pleasure of Exchanging Gifts
What is your favorite kind of gift to receive? My favorite is useful gifts. Socks, for example. A nice sweatshirt—nicer than I might buy myself. Something related to one of my hobbies. Food gifts are...
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Happy Festivus! Air Those Grievances
I love Festivus because it frees the part of my personality that I am told I should suppress–the gripey, complainy part. (What’s Festivus? Watch the video here.) Perhaps I shouldn’t admit to having...
View ArticleSocial Skills Count on Facebook Too
There was one bright spot amid all the hand-wringing over Facebook and its supposedly negative effects on relationships. Psychologists thought that Facebook allows people with low self-esteem, who...
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Complaining About Complaining
Carl Jung said, “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” I picked up The Squeaky Wheel: Complaining the Right Way To Get Results, Improve Your...
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Looking at the Negative (Spaces) In Our World
Elisha Goldstein’s book, The Now Effect, has sent my brain spinning in yet another direction. The anecdote: A professor stood before a philosophy class holding an empty jar. As the students took their...
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Brush Up On Your People Skills, Read a Novel
“I never read fiction,” is a point of pride for many people, along the lines of “I never watch TV.” The implication is that nonfiction is a higher calling, that fiction is a frivolous pastime while...
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