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How to Respond to Compliments When You’re Not Sure How to Respond

How to Respond to Compliments When You’re Not Sure How to Respond

Everyone reacts to compliments differently. Some people love them. Thrive on them, even. If verbal affirmation is your love language, nothing lights up your day like receiving a positive comment. At work, it might be praise about how well you …

Joshua February 13, 2022 February 13, 2022 Family and Relationships
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To Parents Whose Schools Closed: Your Kids Are Going To Be Okay

To Parents Whose Schools Closed: Your Kids Are Going To Be Okay

In mid-March, schools around the United States closed, seemingly overnight. That meant a lot of parents were left with kids at home, possibly for the rest of the school year. It creates a lot of challenges for parents. Every parent …

Joshua March 21, 2020 March 21, 2020 Family and Relationships / Mental and Physical Health
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Three Limited Resources That Hold People Back

Three Limited Resources That Hold People Back

Most people have heard the word economics before, but there’s a good chance they only have a vague idea what it means … or, if they did know in some dusty old class, they don’t remember it now. Economics is …

Joshua December 9, 2019 April 6, 2022 Entertainment and Technology / Family and Relationships / Finances and Work / Mental and Physical Health
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The Myth of “Having It All”

The Myth of “Having It All”

This is a lightly edited and updated version of a post that first appeared on Mumbling Mommy. “Can women really have it all?” This question has been a recent media obsession, but it has an old history. For what seems …

Joshua September 16, 2019 September 6, 2019 Family and Relationships / Finances and Work
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Why Parents Should Worry Less About Where Their Kid Goes to School

Why Parents Should Worry Less About Where Their Kid Goes to School

This is a lightly edited and updated version of a post that first appeared on Mumbling Mommy. A few months ago, just before summer’s end, Rachael and I took the kids to a local splash park. While we were there, I could …

Joshua August 8, 2019 July 6, 2019 Family and Relationships
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How to Get Someone Else to Do What You Want

How to Get Someone Else to Do What You Want

On the day after Christmas, 2018, police in North Little Rock, Arkansas, talked a man out of jumping off a bridge. The police worked with the man for 30 minutes until the man backed down, was put into an ambulance, …

Joshua June 27, 2019 May 1, 2019 Family and Relationships / Finances and Work
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When No One Comes To Your Party

When No One Comes To Your Party

This post originally ran over at Mumbling Mommy. I turned 40 earlier this year, and to mark the occasion my wife offered to help organize a birthday party. I thought that was interesting, but I also didn’t want anything big, …

Joshua June 6, 2019 May 31, 2019 Entertainment and Technology / Family and Relationships
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How to Make a Person Feel Like They’re the Only Person in the Room

How to Make a Person Feel Like They’re the Only Person in the Room

When former President George H.W. Bush passed away on November 30, 2018, I was surprised to find out that one of my relatives had not only met the president personally back in the 1990s, but she had the pictures to …

Joshua May 23, 2019 April 23, 2019 Family and Relationships
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How To Get Over the Intimidation of Trying Something New

How To Get Over the Intimidation of Trying Something New

Not long ago, I was talking to a relative about the business of writing. This relative maintains a very active social media account, and I told the relative that I thought that maybe there was some potential to turn it …

Joshua May 9, 2019 April 23, 2019 Entertainment and Technology / Family and Relationships / Finances and Work
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Want to Avoid Making Mistakes? Consider This Principle Doctors Use.

Want to Avoid Making Mistakes? Consider This Principle Doctors Use.

When I was in middle school, I once walked out of a speech class in tears because I couldn’t deliver the speech right. The teacher came out into the hallway and told me, “You’re a perfectionist. You like to get …

Joshua April 18, 2019 March 2, 2019 Family and Relationships
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