Nature and culture conspire to create people who are never quite complete. And it's a good thing, too.
Tag: human nature
What I Learned from the Teen Psychologist
In 1987, my parents sent me to a teen psychologist. Here's how that encounter went.
So What’s Stopping You?
Whenever you think you can't do something, you should pause to ask what's really stopping you.
Fighting the Good Fight
What my mother taught me to look for when I was tempted to lose patience with people.
Parenting Out on the Big Ocean
As parents, we don't really create our children. We mostly try to keep them afloat.
2 Ways to Know Bo (and Each Other)
The two basic types of English nouns point to two basically different types of knowledge. Here's what each can teach us about how to know each other.
Why Parenting Has No App
In a world of scalable solutions and networked knowledge, parenting still feels messy and old fashioned--for good reason.
4 Things I Expect from You
Note: the things I expect may not be exactly what you expected.
The Other 7 Billion of Us
Today, nearly everyone in the world chose not to kill anyone.
Why Are People So Easily Deceived?
After watching another week of election-year shenanigans, my teen-aged daughter asked me a pretty adult question: “why are so many people so easily deceived? She was thinking of a particular set of people on one side of the political spectrum, but I thought bigger. The hard truth, after all, is that we’re all susceptible to …