Fragmented Attention “Spending the majority of your day with fragmented attention can permanently affect your ability to sustain concentration.” This is something that Cal Newport, Associate Professor at Georgetown University, said in a Ted Talk about why he has never had a social media account. He talks and writes about…

Six-year-old Shoots Teacher This week we learned that a six-year-old had shot his teacher. With a handgun. That he had brought to school in his backpack. We were shocked. And I want to say something about this: There is one thing that this is — and many things that this…

By Dr. Corinne Masur Now that the Thanksgiving rush is over, the turkey is eaten and we have all returned to our own homes, perhaps we need to rethink this holiday. Recently I listened to an interesting show on NPR about Thanksgiving from the Native American perspective. It summarized what…

Being Good is Good Enough If you are looking for a straight A, Ivy League, Rhodes Scholar kind of person, keep looking. I am a good person — but I am not a great person. As a child I had an unidentified learning disability and something that might now be…

INTENSIVE PARENTING — PART 2 Following up on my last post where I talked about intensive parenting, I would like to talk a little more about the subject. But this time I want to talk about one of the things that makes parenting intensive these days and one way to…

INTENSIVE PARENTING Recently while talking to Dr. Pauline Boss (author of Ambiguous Loss and The Myth of Closure), she said something remarkable. Although we were not really talking about parenting, she said as an aside,“I think parenting, the way it’s done today, is unsustainable”. And then, just today I saw…

Recently I wrote a post defining trauma. That was a few months ago. Now, if you want to understand the nature of trauma, all you have to do is look at the news. Trauma is not being teased by a few kids at school. Trauma is not missing out on…

RAISING RESILIENT CHILDREN: It’s not what you think! Some parents think that raising their children to be resilient means trying to instill confidence in their children. And they think that the way to do THAT is to say, “Good job. Buddy!” after everything their child does. Other parents, often Dads…

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