The topic of spanking has been at hand of late. In my mind, spanking children is like going to war. When, according to a report issued by the Zero-to-Three organization, 61% of American’s have attack strategies in their arsenal and poor impulse control that impels their use, this is a recipe for big trouble in [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Why Spanking Children is a Bad Idea
Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Apoplectic Over Apoptosis
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As an undergraduate student at SUNY New Paltz years ago, I once got a personal letter from B.F. Skinner. It came from his office at Harvard and I suspect it was part of his protocol to positively reinforce anyone who seemed to subscribe even minimally to his behaviorist perspective. From a brain development point of [...]
Painting an Artist’s Brain
Posted in Uncategorized on March 15, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Right now I’m reading Harvard social psychologist Ellen Langer’s book, On Becoming an Artist. In it, she lovingly seduces me into really allowing myself to be drawn into the possibility of my own personal renaissance. Her basic premise is that to live the life of an artist, we must do our best to continually live [...]
Repairing Ruptured Relationships
Posted in Uncategorized on March 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
What is a ruptured relationship and why should we do anything about it? And if we’re of a mind to, how can we do repair work, especially when we might not have sufficient neural real estate available in the face of our own emotional reactivity?
To my mind these are crucial questions underlying the most difficult [...]
How to Raise a Saint
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Get lucky. That’s the first requirement. I believe the primary reason that the major religions have mostly failed to bring forth people of equivalent development as their founders – more Christs from Christianity or more Buddhists from Buddhism, for example – is because the brain is the most complex, kluged-together creation in the universe. The [...]
