“I don’t want to!” With a stamping of feet and a petulant look the child storms off, secretly smiling inside because he got out of it again. He’s happily playing with his toys and the task remains incomplete until the next time the demand comes. Why would I let my kids get away with this […]

Sarcasm sucks. Please do not use sarcasm again. It seems funny to knock people, to question their intelligence, their virility, their style. And everyone else is doing it, so why the ban? Sarcasm is always an attack. There is always some little piece of that “victim’s” mind that shrinks back and is hurt by it. […]