Positiveness, Parts 1 and 2 from Kenneth Barish
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Click Here to Read:   Positiveness, Part I: Strengthening Family Relationships: How to engage children’s interests and support their strengths by Kenneth Barish on his Pride and Joy Blog on the Psychology Today blogs on December 10, 2012.

Click Here to Read:  Positiveness Part II: Encouragement, Appreciation, and PrideListen for the “beautiful sound” and the helpful moment by Kenneth Barish on his Pride and Joy Blog on the Psychology Today blogs on January 14, 2013.

One-child policy, hypochondria, games or guns? from Sasha Rolde at IP.net
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Dear Colleagues,

following a really exciting few days in New York at the APsaA annual meetings I wish that I could post some of the wonderful presentations I am hearing, but we will have to wait for those, so I mention it only to whet your appetite for next time.
In the meanwhile, the website is still replete with interesting material and I list my choices, followed the by rest of the posts.

1) Is this true as in China that only children are “less trusting, less trustworthy, less competitive and more risk-averse than those with siblings, as well as “more neurotic, less conscientious and more pessimistic?” Please read the study in the CHINA category.
Click Here to Read This Article: Continue reading One-child policy, hypochondria, games or guns? from Sasha Rolde at IP.net

My Life as a Dog at WCSPP
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WCSPP ANALYTIC FILM NIGHT: MY LIFE AS A DOG
1/25/13, Wainwright House, 260 Stuyvesant Ave. Rye, NY 10580, time 7:00 P.M. RSVP

This film, released in 1988, was widely hailed as a work of tremendous depth and talent, probing the depths of a child’s life experience in the face of his mother’s untimely illness and death, already having been left by his father. Slowly learning the ways of people and the pain of loss, he comes to understand and survive, Continue reading My Life as a Dog at WCSPP