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Things change. Fast. It’s easy to forget that when we’re in the midst of a rough week at work, a fight with our spouse, or a child’s tantrum, but it’s true. As more years add up in the rear-view mirror of my life, the impermanence of everything in our world gets more and more airtime in my mind. For me, it can be easy to slip into a state of sadness about this when I realize how fleeting some of ...

When I made the decision to become a parent, I did it with a clear awareness that one of my ‘jobs’  as a parent would be that of teacher. While my parents had many strengths, teaching, especially for my father, was not one of them. From an early age, I was often self-taught, and that has created some challenges and frustrations for me in adulthood. As a result of this, I have been particularly determined that my daughter gets a ...

Ran across this article yesterday, important information for those of you with young children.  The main point of the article:

In a study published in the November issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health, nearly 40 percent of young adults who said they had tried suicide said that they made their first attempt before entering high school.

The researchers also found that suicide attempts during childhood and adolescence were linked to higher scores of depression at the time of the attempts…

It’s ...