Hey parents, I have a question for you. Which scenario would elicit a bigger, more energetic response from you? You are trying to get your two kids out the door and to the library for story time. Your preschooler pulls on her sandals, follows you and the toddler out the door, and climbs into [...]
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Overcoming the Negativity Bias or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Ignore the Fake Tiger
I’m whizzing down the freeway in my minivan with a knot in my stomach. I’m approximately 3.5 minutes later than I’d hoped to be to pick up my son from school. If I don’t get there soon, that dumb Land Rover will take the last spot in the lineup and I’ll have to park [...]
The Farmer’s Almanac of Mental Health
By no stretch of the imagination would anyone consider me a farm girl, though I once owned a pair of overalls in the 90s. But my father has always kept a garden and many summer evenings during my childhood were spent watching him work and occasionally plucking a tomato horn worm off a plant for [...]