Archive for July, 2007
The Boston Globe: Do Your Kids a Favor and Don’t Play with Them |
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HEADLINE: Leave those kids alone - The idea that adults should be playing with their kids is a modern invention — and not necessarily a good one |
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My Op-ed: Tony Soprano’s Lesson to All of Us |
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Reprinted from the Centre Daily Times of State College, PA, online at CentreDaily.com; Posted on Sun, Jun. 24, 2007 |
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Kids pick up on everything, and research shows that children can "catch" their parents' stress just like they catch a virus—soaking up the stress that pervades a household until their developing nervous systems reach "overload." Then kids act-out, or get sick.