Speculation abounds about what could cause ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). New research is helping to put the pieces together. A recent study done on 8,000 Finnish kids showed that those who are ambidextrous were at a higher risk for linguistic and attention deficit problems. The research found that, at age 8, the ambidextrous [...]
My impression about marriage is, or was, that men are the ones who ruin marriages by cheating. That’s what the movies tell us. So do Dr. Phill and other pop Psychology gurus. The assumption is that women are the victims. While men run around wrecking their marriages by being uncontrollable horn dogs. Men are lecherous [...]
The familiar scene goes something like this: “Honey! I need to go to the store for tooth paste! I’ll be back in a few minutes!” I then drive a mile down the road and get our much needed toothpaste. But, then, because I never want to go home to the kids empty handed, I [...]
Don’t get me wrong. Friendly competition is an educational experience. We pass our abilities to our kids by pushing them, defeating them and motivating them. Competition, in that sense, is helpful and necessary. There are, however, parents who compete with their kids as rivals. They fail to recognize their role as educators, continuing, like immature [...]
The guy behind the register is an employee. He is required to get items for you and to serve your buying needs. He’s even required, if he expects to keep his job, to put up with rudeness. It is still no excuse to be pushy, say “gimme 5 packs of smokes,” or to omit [...]
I sat down yesterday, and I wrote an entire article about the subject of love. It wasn’t terrible, but it was entirely too philosophical and sounded just a tad high-minded. Besides, after two pages, I realized it could go on forever. Nobody wants to read the ramblings of an average guy trying to sound [...]
Parents say bike helmets save lives. Your local government might even have bike helmet laws designed to save your kids’ lives. Your neighbor would probably chastise you if she saw your kids riding their bikes without helmets. Everyone, it seems, buys the notion that helmets saves lives. I have always contended, however, that they [...]
What do you do when it’s 11:30 at night and your neighbors are having a noisy, sleep depriving party? If you’re me, you march over there and tell them to shut the hell up. I have no Japanese like compunction to endure insult from anybody, least of all college punks (I live a [...]
It is inevitable, when we go to a public pool, that my boys will want to bring toys and that those toys will end up being played with by other kids. The same holds true at parks; unless the boys are determined to hang onto their toys for the duration of their visit, they are [...]
What would you do if you had a job where you had contact with the same people every day, and one of those people called you a variety of ugly names every time they saw you for the duration of a year? Say you’re off duty one day and you see that person sitting [...]
A huge irritant to me is to watch people who could be spending their money to better educate their children spend it instead on stupid crap like lottery tickets. Most of us have fallen on hard times at one time or another. But, getting poor is no excuse for losing your mind. Let’s put [...]
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