Are you really expressing yourself -- or are you just dressing a certain way? Are you really showing the world your true self -- or are you just putting on a performance for an audience?
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Anyone who's been to Disneyland -- or even just a local playground or grocery store -- has probably seen a young girl in a Disney Princess costume. I remember girls playing dress-up when I was young... but I don't remember owning an official princess dress. I started wondering when this trend started... and whether it's really a good idea for parents to dress their daughters up like princesses as daywear.
My research got interesting pretty quickly. Here are some of the facts that surprised me most:
We all know one: a new age hippie type who’s always reading Eckhardt Tolle and “working on themselves” and committing the gravest (or at least most condescending) of crimes against humanity: giving unsolicited advice.
I was scrolling through my newsfeed this morning when I saw this:
No disrespect to my friend who posted this... but as a psychologist, I couldn't disagree more.
There is No Benefit to Having Self-Esteem. Here's What Children Should Be Learning, Instead.3/9/2016
Brace yourself -- I'm about to show you one of the cutest, most hilarious videos of all time. Ready?
Cool fact: that video is actually a replication of one of the most important psychology studies ever. Walter Mischel's Marshmallow Test measured the responses of three- and four-year-old students who were told they could either have one marshmallow now... or two marshmallows, if they could wait for five minutes. Then they were left alone with the marshmallow.
“You are so beautiful, and I am a fool to be in love with you / is a theme that keeps coming up in songs and love poems,” Billy Collins writes in Nightclub.
"There seems to be no room for variation. I have never heard anyone sing I am so beautiful and you are a fool to be in love with me, even though this notion has surely crossed the minds of women and men alike. You are so beautiful, too bad you are a fool is another one you don't hear. Or, you are a fool to consider me beautiful. That one you will never hear, guaranteed."
The Economist recently published The model minority is losing patience, which shared the story of Michael Wang:
MICHAEL WANG, a young Californian, came second in his class of 1,002 students; his ACT score was 36, the maximum possible; he sang at Barack Obama’s inauguration; he got third place in a national piano contest; he was in the top 150 of a national maths competition; he was in several national debating-competition finals. But when it came to his university application he faced a serious disappointment for the first time in his glittering career. He was rejected by six of the seven Ivy League colleges to which he applied.
A few months ago, I wrote that, by 1979 standards, your first-grader is probably emotionally and physically stunted. Indeed, according to education expert Louise Bates Ames, Ph.D., here are the 1979 prerequisites for 1st grade:
1. Will your child be six years, six months or older when he begins first grade and starts receiving reading instruction? You Won’t Believe What This Cop Did After Disarming a Robber, or How to be Better at Everything8/10/2015
A while back, I attended an Urban Escape and Evasion talk given by Kevin Reeve, founder of onPoint Tactical Training School and former Navy SEAL instructor. He shared the following story (which I’m totally paraphrasing):
A police officer I knew decided that he wanted to learn how to disarm a criminal. So I taught him how – and I instructed him, “In order to actually be able to do this under pressure, you need to practice. Every single day.” So he did! He went home and he practiced every single day with his wife, who had the patience of a saint. Every day, she would point an unloaded gun at him, and he would disarm her. Over and over and over, for 15, 30, 45 minutes! And then – lo and behold! – one day, this officer visited a convenience store in a seedy neighborhood. While he was there, an armed robber attempted to hold up the store. Just like he’d practiced – thousands of times! – the officer safely, successfully disarmed the robber. But then… he did the strangest thing. |
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