human nature
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How to Lower Your Teen’s Risk of Addiction
We don’t want to believe that our adolescent children will abuse any addictive substances, but we also know that it’s increasingly likely they will as they get older. By 12th grade, about two-thirds of students will have tried alcohol, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention; nearly half of all high school students…
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How to Use Kindness to Deal With Difficult, Negative People
Having any sort of interaction with a negative or downright mean person is unpleasant on so many levels. Unfortunately, they are everywhere and basically unavoidable. You know the type: Rude and inconsiderate right off the bat, as if they think that it’s perfectly acceptable to treat other people like crap, but also expect everyone else…
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Everything We’ve Ever Learned About Dealing With Tantrums
We’ve written a lot about toddler tantrums over the years. And chances are, we’ll keep on writing about them for years to come. There’s a lot to dissect: why our little kids get so irrationally pissed off, how we can avoid the epic meltdowns in the first place, and what to do when they throw…
