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Courtney

October 11, 2017

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Thoughts on shame and failure—A mental strategy to stop dwelling on...

I read a New York Times article about failure. The author asked the readers to do a quick experiment. He said think back on a time when you remember someone failing. It may take a few minutes, he said. Now write down adjectives you would use to think of that person or that failure. Now, he said, think of a time you failed. Write down adjectives you would use to describe yourself and that failure. Try the exercise yourself. The gist of the results are that people have a hard time remembering other’s failures but when they do, they describe...

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EmilyCC

September 30, 2015

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Beginning Conversations with Children about Pornography

I didn’t think about pornography much as a teenager or young adult. It was difficult to find when I was growing up. Internet browsers weren’t around (really) when I living in my parents’ home, and I liked to keep rules…no way I was going to look at someone’s yucky magazines. I was well into my 20’s at my first exposure to pornography. The more I talk to others, the more I realize how rare that is. An innocent search of the comic book characters, X-Men, can shock a poor 10-year-old, and the misspelling of “boobs,” may be all that protects...

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