OddsBeDamned
Seeking balance in a chaotic world
A letter to Richard Simmons
Rather than simply voicing my concerns about America’s emotionally underdeveloped society in an article on my blog, I decided it would be more effective to take my message directly to the article’s subject. So I submitted a message to Richard Simmons through his website, contents below. Yeah, I …
Accepting responsibility for your emotions – Exhibit A
The other day, I mentioned a Facebook initiative intended to protect children from bullying and how I felt that its efforts to modify the behavior of the bullies rather than the victims would ultimately prove ineffective. Well, the recent response to a joke made by George Lopez about Kirstie …
Anger management as the norm
On the heels of singer Chris Brown’s latest temper tantrum on the set of Good Morning America, I’m left wondering why it is that we don’t bother to teach anger management skills until after the damage has already been done. Fortunately, the only thing harmed this time was a …
Are we settling for too little?
I found a news article today about a woman in California who was arrested for encouraging a fight between her son and another boy. Police were able to identify her because the incident was caught on camera by one of the other kids and posted online. Throughout the …
Lightbulb Moment #11 – The power of self-regulation
When I first read about the stunning absence of looting activity following the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, my curiosity was instantly piqued. And despite its seemingly aberrant nature, I figured that I would be able to quickly identify the causal factors without too much effort. However, …
Examining the true ramifications of ‘insensitivity’
A few celebrities have come under fire in the last few days for making ‘insensitive’ jokes about the crises in Japan. It wasn’t long after the comments were made (mostly through Twitter) that people began criticizing the timing of the remarks and pressuring the celebrities who made them to …
Lightbulb Moment #10 – Desensitizing ourselves
A few days ago, I read an article at CNN.com about a White House-supported initiative by Facebook to protect teens and younger children from bullying. The basic idea is that a tool will be made available to users by which they can report “troubling content” to people of authority, …
Lightbulb Moment #9 – The role of a parent
I have a few different friends who’ve been struggling for the last year or so with the increasing disobedience of their teenage children. No matter how much my friends yell at, punish, or otherwise try to control their teens, they absolutely refuse to listen. Now, I know that …
Rethinking our approach to education
A friend of mine mentioned yesterday that she and her husband are making plans to take in her nephew, a somewhat troubled teenager, in hopes of helping him find his way in life. She described him as a good kid who simply had never had any solid guidance, particularly …
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