Everyday Affair

Everyday Affair

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Archive for Behavour

Teaching Your Kids About Couple Relationships

Your children learn to walk, talk, and relate by watching you. What some parents do not realize is that they are going to learn all about what couple relationships are, as they move through childhood to adulthood, from watching their parents. You have to stop and think about what you are showing your children and [...]

The delicate balance of raising children and discipline issues

When joyful parents welcome a new baby into their lives, love is everywhere! You haven’t yet had an opportunity to sit back and reflect, in real time, just what it takes to be a responsible parent. Being a responsible parent entails teaching your children self discipline, which can be a road fraught with headaches and [...]

Six steps to better decision making

Everyone has, at one time or another, found that they’ve made a rash decision they lived to regret. While some of these decisions may be of a minor nature, they might just as easily be major, with major consequences. You might feel the repercussions immediately, or they might come back to bite you somewhere down [...]

Are You Afraid Of The Dark

Children everywhere enjoy being scared within the safe environment of watching a TV show. Entertaining horror stories for kids are difficult to write but the Are You Afraid Of the Dark series was very well received. Its successful run was for seven seasons, running from 1990 until 2000. The basis of the show was a [...]

Addictive behavior finds a new venue: our electronic gadgets!

We Americans are not alone in our zeal for the latest electronic gadgetry. People all over the world carry their electronic communication and music devices with them, literally everywhere. It’s funny that we are so used to keeping in touch, 24/7, that many of us even take them on vacation! How is it possible to [...]

Abusive Relationships

Although physical domestic abuse is the most serious and tragic form an abusive relationship can take, it is far from the Only one. Abusive relationships can consist of any type of abuse or ill-treatment. What you need to understand when you think about relationship abuse is that you have the right to feel good in [...]

Someone’s asked for your advice on relationships? Don’t do it!

Virtually everyone is asked for their advice on relationships, at some time or another. With the exception of under-age kids and their parents, the best advice is to stay out of giving advice on relationships. With friends, this almost always ends with the person to whom you gave the requested advice, blaming you for the [...]

Anger and depression sometimes go hand in hand

Millions upon millions of people suffer from clinical depression. Depression is sometimes a difficult diagnosis and may involve a number of components and trigger events. The causes of depression are many and varied, ranging from genetic predispositions to disease, aging, traumatic events such as the death of a loved one or divorce, along with hormonal [...]

Breaking Bad Habits

Whenever I loan someone a pencil out of my desk drawer at work, they hesitate to take it from me. I suppose the teeth marks that I’ve unknowingly chomped into its walls are a turn off for some individuals. I’m not sure why I chew on my pencils, it is a bad habit that I’ve [...]