Emotion
This post is to alert you to another excellent post by Albert the Urban Monk. If you are have been reading this blog for a while and think that I’m a fan of Albert (because I link to his posts so often) I can only say that you are right. This post is about becoming [...]
Preface: Should You Listen to Me? Am I the picture of ideal health? Nope. What I am is reasonably fit, have relationships that I find satisfying, aren’t overwhelmed by emotions that I can’t handle and my thinking usually serves me well. At this point in my life I’m pretty happy about where I am. So, [...]
Image by sk8rboi At the moment I am sharing a house with an eight year old (let’s call her ‘Screamer’) and a five year old (let’s call him ‘Kicker’). They are experts at provoking each other. This has led to me dealing with a lot of anger in the last few weeks. (The preference for [...]
Continue reading about Temper Tantrums: responding with soft words or shouting?
Image by littledan77 There is much advice on blogs about how to get your message across. This embraces advice like: have a good attention grabbing headline, tell stories, be entertaining and so on. This is all sensible, but I’d like to examine it a bit. Sometimes things are the reverse of what we expect. I [...]
Image byswitch_1010 I believe that anger is good. Unfortunately it is usually expressed badly. In most relationships I know expression of anger has lead to problems. And this has lead to anger itself being regarded as something bad. If you had an irrationally angry and violent parent you will have lots of memories of the [...]
