All posts tagged parenting psychology

Strength & Weakness: Balance

Over the last week, we have explored the innate and learned behavior which defines and exhibits strength and weakness. To conclude this series, let’s explore how to strike a healthy balance of the two. As the title suggests, balancing strengths and weaknesses is the key for both the individual and the couple. Will ~ Introspection […]

Strength & Weakness: Nurture

Yesterday, we established self-sacrifice as a strength, but identified the same characteristic as a weakness. Natural self-sacrifice is truly a strength which furthers humanity. Self-sacrifice as a weakness is not an instinct, but instead, is learned behavior. Out of the Bubble Outside the vacuum we are exposed to societal expectations and contemporary norms. Over time both change, […]

The only thing I am afraid of…

 is what my children are not afraid of.” ~Wanda Dupuy Every parent feels this at some point. For Mrs. Dupuy, it was seeing her two-year-old at the top of a 50-foot radio tower, holding on with one hand and one foot, waving the other two at her. Balancing Act Baby Dupuy’s balancing act has nothing […]

So, What Do You Want To Know?

Top 15 Questions to Ask Friends Questions for friends change over time. The first questions are a line of discovery to gauge the validity of the friendship connection. As friendship matures, questions move friends closer together on a path or guide them apart. In the end, questions keep friends cordial even when a distance, physical or emotional, […]

When All Else Fails…

Peanut Butter

…Read the Instructions. This very enlightening communication exercise goes along with the communication series for the last week-ish. You will need a piece of paper and a writing implement to begin.