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Are you using the past to avoid feeling some current painful feelings? I could see immediately, in the third Skype session I was having with Vicky, that she was feeling very sad. “Vicky, what are you so sad about?” “Since I’ve been learning Inner Bonding, I keep looking back and feeling so sad about . . . → Read More: Are You Addicted to the Past? Do you have the courage to risk loving yourself – even when you might encounter your children’s uncaring behavior? Most of us really don’t like it when someone is angry with us. We don’t like it when someone goes into resistance to helping us when we need help, instead of caring about us. We . . . → Read More: Do You Have The Courage to Be a Loving Parent?  Comments are closed  Parenting  caretaker, caretaking, children, controlling parenting, giving yourself up, Inner Bonding, love, loving parenting, Margaret Paul, Parenting, personal responsibility, soul, taker We need to resolve the violence in our society. I’m offering a few ideas regarding the issues we need to research and address.
Why? Why are these horrible killings happening?
I don’t pretend to know the answers, but I do have some ideas that I want to share with you. I believe there are many issues that we need to attend to as a society. There is much talk about the need for more mental health facilities, but just as important is why so many people are mentally ill. People who know how to love and value themselves also love and value others, and would never deliberately do harm to others. People capable of empathy could not do what Adam Lanza did. The question is: What created such a degree of internal disconnection from his own feelings and empathic ability, and what created the level of self-loathing that resulted in Adam Lanza killing 20 children and six adults? What creates such a deep inability to regulate feelings? Why did Adam Lanza never learn to manage his feelings in a way that didn’t hurt others? Continue reading Why Do People Kill?       Comments are closed Self Improvement & Personal Growth anti-anxiety drugs, anti-psychotic drugs, child health, childbirth, drugs, killing, loving parenting, murder, Newtown, nutrition, Parenting, parenting issues, prescription drugs, psychotropic drugs, school killings, Violence, violent movies, violent video games Do you hit your children? If you want to raise healthy children, reading this article is a must. . . . → Read More: Finally! Studies Prove That Spanking Doesn’t Work Comments are closed Parenting children, corporal punishment, hitting children, Inner Bonding, loving parenting, Margaret Paul, mentoring for children, Parenting, spanking Many parents try to be far better parents than their parents were, yet their children grow up feeling lost and empty. Discover why in this article. There was an interesting article in The Atlantic, entitled “How to Land Your Kid in Therapy: Why the obsession with our kids’ happiness may be dooming them to unhappy adulthoods. A therapist and mother reports.” http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/07/how-to-land-your-kid-in-therapy/8555/
The article is about the way many parents focus much of their energy on being there for their children, but their children end up feeling lost and empty. Continue reading A Problem with Today’s Parenting   Half of good parenting is being there for your children, and the other half is being a role model of personal responsibility for your own feelings and needs. Discover how important it is to your children for you to love yourself. Margaret Paul, Ph.D. is a best-selling author of 8 books, relationship expert, . . . → Read More: The Inner Bonding® Path to Loving Parenting |
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