Archive for November, 2008
How Families in India View American Families |
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I recently spent 10 days in India, and the people I met were always intrigued to hear I wrote about marriage and parenting. Some people politely asked why Americans don’t understand what Indians take for granted; namely, that marriage is about commitment, and it harms the children to divorce. I did my best [...] |
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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.