In her new book Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success, psychologist and author Madeline Levine exposes the pitfalls of over-parenting, and argues for a new definition of success and achievement.    Levine uses the term &l…

Psychologists and others describe a quality of awareness with optimal functioning, where time slows or stops and we can be most creative.   “I don’t believe that when you get into a creative place, you’re giving up thinking. You…

It’s not often that a story about the brain warms the heart. But that’s exactly what happened to me when I read an article last month in the Washington Post. It’s about how teachers in many schools in the D.C. area are foregoing empty…

Hardliner. Grouch. Curmudgeon. If you opt to go your own way and let the approval of others take a back seat, you’re going to be called these names at some point. But you’re going to be happier. And you’re going to be more respected,…