A New York Times blogger recently questioned her choice to teach her daughter to be kind, above all else. She writes, “My daughter had become the girl I hoped she would be — the girl I always wanted to be … Continue reading
When you react against something, you will sometimes run towards something that’s fundamentally the same thing. Think of all the young people who react against their parents, often legitimately, for being the way they are. Superficially, these young people go … Continue reading
After a holiday, clients occasionally admit to me that interactions with family, grown children, aging parents and old friends were often tinged with guilt. In spite of all the jokes (“What? You can’t call your mother once in a while? … Continue reading
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he will push for companies, including Apple Inc., to bring manufacturing back to the United States. “Make America great again,” Trump recently said in a speech at Liberty University in Virginia. “We’re going to … Continue reading
Dr. Hurd is the Babe Ruth of concise, dead on, substantial internet posts. I am in awe of his daily home runs. Thank you!
How many times have we heard people say, “It’s all ego.” Or, “He did it out of ego.” Or worse yet, “I don’t want this to be about ego. I want it to be about something better, or higher.” All … Continue reading
A recent Politico headline reads: “The One Weird Trait That Predicts Whether You’re a Trump Supporter …And it’s not gender, age, income, race or religion.” What is it? Authoritarianism. The author never fully defines the term; presumably he means people … Continue reading
The battle between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton amounts to a debate over who’s the more socialist. Take Obamacare. Bernie Sanders wants to trash the whole mess. He wants to fully replace it with single-payer, Medicare for all. On the … Continue reading
“The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.” — Maria Montessori
The following is from “The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined” by Salman Khan, founder of the world famous, online-based Khan Academy, an innovator in childhood and ongoing adult education. Testing out. What a concept. I’d had no idea that such … Continue reading
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have been going back and forth about “New York values.” Are values really geographically defined? Cruz probably does not mean to imply this; but the concept does. Politically speaking, there is no conflict about the … Continue reading
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!” — George Mason, co-author of the Second Amendment; also sometimes attributed to Ben Franklin