We’ve had more than 5 inches of rain this week. What a blessing!
We’ve enjoyed the sound of rain, the smell of rain, the sight of rain against the streetlamps at night, the feeling of rain on our skin. I wish I’d remembered to stand outside with my mouth open to enjoy the taste [...]
Here’s something that I wish I had learned before I had children:
Process praise focuses on the effort and strategy behind a specific behavior. “You worked hard!” “You thought of a terrific way to help that person.” In contrast, person praise involves making global assessments based on specific behavior. “You are so smart!” “You are [...]
Quite by accident, I watched Nova last week. The show was about epigenetics, the biological mechanisms that control gene expression. The rest of this post is based on my TV show’s worth of education, so please just take it as just my impression. Look in Wikipedia or other sources for more accurate [...]
We’re having a serious drought here in North Carolina. We had no hurricanes bring heavy rains in September, and it has been a long time since our last good hard rain. The tops of the trees are turning brown instead of their usual fall colors. This isn’t the first time we’ve had [...]
My latest article in Positive Psychology News Daily is called Social Activism: What Works? It is about a session at the Gallup Well-being Forum 2007 where Scott Sherman talked about what does and does not work with social activism. He wrote a dissertation on the analysis of 60 case studies involving social action [...]
