Flipping through the paper the other day, an unusual article caught my eye. Written by a local doctor, it began by comparing aglets, the tips that keep shoelaces from unraveling, to telomeres, stretches of repeated DNA sequences that protect our chromosomes’ ends (much like aglets do), help cells divide and eventually, shorten and die. (For […]
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It is incredibly easy to get mired in negative thinking, especially when we replay regrets or mistakes. Why did I do that? We think, cheeks burning with embarrassment. What’s wrong with me?? Well, nothing actually. We all make mistakes, we all have regrets, we all feel, at point or another, like we could simply shrivel
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My son and I began our after-drop off ritual last week, when my daughter started school again. After bringing her to her classroom, my son and I go for a walk around the nature preserve that her school sits in the heart of, trotting down familiar paths that nevertheless manage to surprise us with their
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Sometimes, at the end of a rough day, it can feel like everything went wrong, and everyone was conspiring against you. That’s the problem with negativity – it can be consuming, and cloud the reality of situations. At the end of a rough day, it might seem hard to think back and pick out the
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Living with family for the first time in years (other than my husband and kids, of course), I keep finding various versions of to-do lists all over the house. It makes me smile to read the lists of my parents and sisters; they remind me of my own lists that they no doubt find everywhere.
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Give praise with no “if, and or but” attached. This is a piece advice I’ve been coming across a lot these days, and just like the latest information on process-based praise, it makes sense to me, for both adults and children. Who wants to hear a compliment with something negative tacked on to the end?
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People have a widely varied response to the words, working out, one that ranges from “Yes, I work out regularly!” to an involuntary shudder. Exercise, though, does not have to come in the typical package we might think of when we hear “working out”. Various Forms of Working Out Exercise can be a form of
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My children and I were visiting friends the other night, for a short play date squeezed in between naps and dinner. As we were getting ready to leave, our conversation turned to camping (which we had recently done) and my daughter chimed in about making s’mores. Pretty soon, both kids were asking excitedly if we
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