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1 hour agoThe Easiest Way to Deepen Your Yoga Practice? Teach It to a Child.
Parenting transformed yoga practice into a consistent, shared experience of mindfulness and presence with a child.
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18 hours agoBill Linnane: I pay my son 5 for every try he scores - at least it gets him off his video games
Corruption and bribery in youth sports undermine the integrity of the game and can negatively impact young athletes. A recent interclub game revealed blatant examples of this unethical behavior.
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fromSilicon Canals
18 hours agoPsychology says parents who can't stop helping their adult children aren't being loving - they're unconsciously protecting themselves from the terror of becoming unnecessary - Silicon Canals
Parental overinvolvement may stem from a fear of irrelevance rather than solely from love.
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21 hours agoI'm 66 and I recently told my son that I was proud of him for the first time in his adult life, and the look on his face told me everything about the cost of assuming that providing for someone communicates the same thing as telling them they matter - Silicon Canals
Verbal expressions of pride are crucial for emotional connection between parents and children.
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2 days agoParenting
Psychology says the 1960s and 70s accidentally produced one of the most emotionally durable generations in modern history - not through better parenting but through benign neglect that forced children to develop internal regulation instead of waiting for adult intervention - Silicon Canals
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5 days agoPeople who were labeled 'the easy child' often became adults who confuse having no needs with being low maintenance, and the difference between those two things is about thirty years of unasked questions - Silicon Canals
Easy children often grow into adults who suppress their needs, leading to quiet suffering despite appearing content.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoPeople who were always told they were mature for their age weren't complimented. They were recruited. And the difference between those two things explains most of their adult exhaustion. - Silicon Canals
Being labeled 'mature for your age' can create a lifelong pressure to meet adult expectations, hindering childhood development.
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fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoPsychology says the 1960s and 70s accidentally produced one of the most emotionally durable generations in modern history - not through better parenting but through benign neglect that forced children to develop internal regulation instead of waiting for adult intervention - Silicon Canals
Children in the 70s thrived on unstructured play and minimal parental intervention, fostering independence and problem-solving skills.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoPeople who were labeled 'the easy child' often became adults who confuse having no needs with being low maintenance, and the difference between those two things is about thirty years of unasked questions - Silicon Canals
Easy children often grow into adults who suppress their needs, leading to quiet suffering despite appearing content.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoPeople who were always told they were mature for their age weren't complimented. They were recruited. And the difference between those two things explains most of their adult exhaustion. - Silicon Canals
Being labeled 'mature for your age' can create a lifelong pressure to meet adult expectations, hindering childhood development.
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoPsychology says the most important life lesson isn't learning to make better decisions - it's learning to live peacefully with the ones you can't undo - Silicon Canals
Irreversible choices shape our lives and learning to coexist with them is crucial for mental well-being.
fromTODAY.com
1 day agoDylan Dreyer and Ashley Graham Agree: This 1 Skill Makes 'Boy Mom' Life Easier
Dylan shared a story about her sons running in circles, saying, 'As long as nobody's crying, I'm fine. I don't mind the chaos. I can actually tune it out.' This reflects a common parenting experience where noise becomes a normal part of life.
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from24/7 Wall St.
6 days agoClark Howard Tells Debt-Free Dad to Back Off: Let Your Daughter Pay Her Last $1,000
Clark Howard advised the father to let his daughter continue making payments on her $1,000 car loan, emphasizing that it serves as a valuable life lesson and builds her credit history.
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fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoI'm 37 and my daughter asked me why I apologize to furniture when I bump into it, and I realized I've been rehearsing deference to inanimate objects because somewhere in childhood I learned that taking up space required an apology. - Silicon Canals
Compulsive apologizing often stems from childhood experiences where one's presence was seen as a source of tension or conflict.
fromTiny Buddha
1 week agoEscaping an Abusive Situation: The Hardest Parts and Greatest Lessons - Tiny Buddha
For years, I had absorbed the chaos. I had made myself smaller, quieter, more accommodating. I had convinced myself that if I could just love harder, be better, try more, something would change. But in that moment, watching my child suffer at the hands of the man who was supposed to protect him, I understood with absolute clarity that nothing I did would ever be enough to fix this.
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fromTODAY.com
1 week agoAfter Heartache and Grief, 2 Friends Get Well-Deserved Girls Trip With Jenna & Sheinelle
Lindsay texted Ella, 'ARE YOU WATCHING? WE HAVE TO APPLY' and within hours they hatched a plan to make the video and enlisted the help of Ella's twin sister, Olivia Dombkowski, to help.
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fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoI meditated every morning for three years and I was still the most reactive person in every room I walked into - and a monk in Thailand told me the problem wasn't my practice, it was that I was using stillness as preparation for chaos instead of learning to find stillness inside the chaos itself - Silicon Canals
Emotional neglect occurs when parents provide materially but fail to be emotionally present for their children.
fromBuzzFeed
1 week agoChildfree People Share The Weirdest Reasons They've Been Told To Have Kids
My dad loved kids. Being a dad was all he ever wanted, and he excelled at it. I remember the day he sold our childhood train set - the family buying it came over, and he got so excited showing the kid how it all worked. He just loved kids.
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Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoThere's a specific kind of exhaustion that hits people who were raised to be grateful for everything, because gratitude became a cage where acknowledging your own unhappiness felt like ingratitude, and some people never found the door out. - Silicon Canals
Compulsory gratitude transforms an emotion into a form of surveillance, leading to emotional suppression and exhaustion for some individuals.
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoI became successful and my father said 'I'm proud of you' for the first time at my 50th birthday - and instead of feeling grateful I felt angry because I finally understood he'd been withholding that my entire life - Silicon Canals
Psychologist Carl Rogers, one of the most influential therapists of the twentieth century, identified something he called 'conditional regard.' The idea is simple but devastating. When a parent withholds approval or affection unless certain conditions are met, it can deeply affect a child's self-worth and emotional health.
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