What do you do when you are angry? How about when you are sad or scared or frustrated? Have you ever thought about how you learned to manage your emotions? Chances are that you learned to manage your emotions by watching the way adults in your life managed theirs—just like children today learn how … [Read more...]

Part of our identity, especially as children, comes from knowing from where and from whom we come. Knowing the different parts of our heritage—the biological and the cultural—gives us a foundation upon which we can build our individual personality. We can make conscious choices to either follow in … [Read more...]

There is a lot to be said for being happy. Happy tends to be the overarching goal that people have for their lives, their kids’ lives, and just about everything else in general. For obvious reasons, people do not want to be sad, hurt, anxious, or angry. Those emotions are the more uncomfortable … [Read more...]

What do you think of when you think about fear? Is it anything good? Fear tends to have a negative reputation in society because admitting to being afraid is to admit that we do not have control over everything in our lives. We want stability; we want to know that things are going to be alright. … [Read more...]