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Parenting > Marketing Disconnection: When Did "You don't have to connect with your kids" Become a Selling Point?
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Parenting > Marketing Disconnection: When Did "You don't have to connect with your kids" Become a Selling Point?

This car ad is touting quiet, non-interactive children as a primary benefit of a car with built-in wifi. Now bear in mind I'm a big tech fan and readily welcome advances. However, I'd rather hear my child in her boredom come up with something imaginative like "I'm jumping on a chocolate chip trampoline" than have them plugged in and tuned out. 

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"Good enough" is Both Good and Enough
Self-worth/esteem, 3. Mindfulness, 3. > SELF-MASTERY <, 3. Stress-Busting Jonathan Sherman Self-worth/esteem, 3. Mindfulness, 3. > SELF-MASTERY <, 3. Stress-Busting Jonathan Sherman

"Good enough" is Both Good and Enough

Please, (PLEASE!) banish the comparison/"not good enough trap". For too many people "good enough" is settling because they didn't achieve perfection or excellence in X thing/endeavor/aspect of life. 

People (maybe even you) are constantly living in mortal fear that they have not reached the "standard" of how they "should" be, that they have, or will, "screw it all up" and ultimately fail... 

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Funny Tombstones &amp; Maintaining Perspective
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Funny Tombstones & Maintaining Perspective

An elderly client told me years ago: "When I was a boy my mother said to me, 'Son, everything in this life matters... just not very much." Your life matters. It's a one-shot around this amazing spinning globe. Life is precious and rare in our end of the galaxy. Make the most of it. Enjoy it. Do good. Make the world and someone's life a little better for your passing. Just don't let your ego fool you into thinking you're so darn important.

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Guest Blogger: Katrina Wride VanWagenen on "Managing Stress by Mindfully Owning Your AWESOMENESS"
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Guest Blogger: Katrina Wride VanWagenen on "Managing Stress by Mindfully Owning Your AWESOMENESS"

Sharing your experiences of trials, pain, acceptance, and endurance that shows me who you are. Keep on going, brighten your day and someone else's. Make a go to list of things that make you awesome, and things that bring a smile to your face when life seems a tad overwhelming, or hugely overwhelming.

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A Circle Is a Nice Thing to Have
3. Mindfulness, 3. Balance and moderation, 3. > SELF-MASTERY <, 3. Stress-Busting, 3. ADHD Jonathan Sherman 3. Mindfulness, 3. Balance and moderation, 3. > SELF-MASTERY <, 3. Stress-Busting, 3. ADHD Jonathan Sherman

A Circle Is a Nice Thing to Have

I doodle and sketch to entertain myself and my children. It actually helps me pay attention. Doodling can do that for ADHD folks like me. Many things are "just because." Like how a circle is just a nice thing to have. Let me explain...

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