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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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, …

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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 …