Tag Archives: making friends

Losing Friends in a Move

Posted 30 May 2010 | By | Categories: Parenting | 10 Comments

   Most friendships are temporary, and most friendships for little kids are especially temporary.  According to my handy dandy childhood psychology book here (which was given to me, coincidentally, by my best friend 18 years ago), kids won’t start understanding the true nature of friendship until their teenage years.  Up to that point friends are defined [...]

Things They Don’t Teach You In School

Posted 04 August 2009 | By | Categories: Education | 19 Comments

  My dad and I had a conversation last week about the things that we were never taught in school.  Some things in life we have to learn for ourselves.  Schooling gives us the raw material to make something of ourselves.  We learn all the core subjects like math and reading, and that’s good.  It’s [...]

Making Friends and Avoiding Cliques

Posted 11 June 2009 | By | Categories: Behavior | 9 Comments

We raise our kids in our own image.  Our dreams for them are to grow into better versions of ourselves.  It’s pretty much the only way we know how to parent, and that’s what we do.  They’ll eventually be molded into close approximations of us because we teach them our values and the things that [...]