A study by Dr. Marjorie Gunnoe found that those who'd been spanked just when they were young - ages 2 to 6 - were doing a little better as teenagers t...
Anne Naylor | Posted 01.02.2010 | Living
I believe we may have much more freedom than we generally realize. As creatures of habit, we tend to get locked in to beliefs, expectations and patterns of behaviour that limit our freedom.
Chade-Meng Tan | Posted 12.22.2009 | Living
There are two components to spiritual practice, Wisdom and Compassion, and associating with people helps us grow Compassion. You probably cannot live a holy life without associating with people.
Sebastian Siegel | Posted 12.15.2009 | Entertainment
I'm hungry, hungry for life, hungry to feel, hungry to do. It just feels right. If you look at your hands, these hands, they were meant to DO things with - to work, to play, to struggle, to fight for it, to care.
Scott Schwenk | Posted 12.07.2009 | Los Angeles
I'm not interested in finding a glamorous group of some sort to accept me and white-wash over the places I haven't been willing to do the work around releasing insecurity myself.
Avital Binshtock | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
We know her as Blossom, that spunky adolescent on that eponymous sitcom. But since the series ended in 1995, Mayim Bialik, now 33, has truly blossomed.
cnn.com | Elizabeth Landau CNN | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living
A new study of more than 2,500 toddlers from low-income families found that spanking may have detrimental effects on behavior and mental development....
realsimple.com | Teri Cettina | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
Your child can't sleep? Put bedtime bugaboos--and your kids--to rest with these expert solutions....
Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
Why don't most of us ask, even though we know we should? We don't ask, because we are afraid of the answers.
Peter Clothier | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living
Our culture doesn't do much to encourage us to respect discipline, much less practice it. We grow up believing it to be the enemy of creativity and an obstruction to our imagined freedoms.
Don McNay | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business
We have a financial system that has played to people's weaknesses. We have allowed people who are prone to instant gratification to have as much credit as they could get their hands on.
Jay Michaelson | Posted 07.09.2009 | Living
The secret to spiritual practice is doing it precisely when you don't feel like doing it. When such thoughts matter most is when they are the hardest to summon up.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living
One of the challenges of writing is...writing. Here are some tips that I've found most useful for myself, for actually getting words onto the page: 1...
Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 04.02.2009 | Living
Go ahead and watch that stress and be mindful of your habits -- including your own tendency to obsess or judge or take life twists and turns to heart.
Robert Rose | Posted 03.28.2009 | Living
There is a time and place, for coercion and for persuasion, but the more you learn to use negotiation the more satisfaction you get from teaching and your students.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 03.15.2009 | Living
Every Wednesday is Tip Day. This Wednesday: 5 tips for getting a little kid to take "no" for an answer. My three-year-old hates being told "No" and "...
Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 03.14.2009 | Living
Has mastery become an old-fashioned notion? Mastery takes time, something most of us have trouble finding. It takes discipline, a quality in short supply today.
Jim Randel | Posted 02.07.2009 | Business
Today being the first real business day of the New Year, I am writing this e-letter about New Year's resolutions - those commitments of resolve we fin...
Danny Groner | Posted 02.02.2009 | Living
]At the class' conclusion. I noticed a difference. My body felt more limber, just from an hour's work. I also recognized a shift in my outlook on yoga.
Sean Jacobs | Posted 01.16.2009 | Living
How do you raise 'American kids' when you were raised to be an African parent?
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 12.24.2008 | Living
I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit. ...
Kim Stagliano | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media
Who declared open season on people with autism? Autism ain't for wimps. Whether you're a pre-verbal toddler or a high functioning forty year-old, it has challenges most folks cannot fathom.
Dave Burdick | Posted 07.10.2008 | Living
I knew the inner strength goals before we'd even read the fitness book. Discipline and organization were tops.
newsweek.com | Posted 01.04.2010 | Living