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Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
La sconfitta di una generazione impaurita
Ma i campi di guerra della nostra sconfitta generazionale sono tanti. In famiglia, con le donne, con i figli. Una generazione di indecisi, di uomini incapaci di sostenere le responsabilità. E questo, se vogliamo, non sarebbe stato neanche un disvalore. Avrei amato una classe…
L'eredità, un tema tabù
Nessuno parla dell’eredità. È un tema collegato alla morte dei nostri parenti, dei nostri genitori, dunque è un tema tabù. Siamo pur sempre un Paese dotato di un cospicuo senso di colpa collettivo, grazie a ragioni culturali e di formazione. Però bisogna farlo, in onore del…
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
IQ is a dress size, not a birth date
Like Kirstie’s dress size, IQ is malleable. IQ has been shown to vary over one’s life span, and it is surprisingly vulnerable to environmental influences. It can change if one is stressed, old, or living in a different culture from the testing majority. A child’s IQ is…
Dio odia il Giappone (Douglas Coupland, M. Howatson and Anna Mioni)
La depressione chiamata umore
I parenti materni (il tuo «lato X») tendono a essere «umorali». Lo metto tra virgolette perché nessuno è autorizzato a menzionare il vero problema che affligge quell’ala della famiglia, cioè (e qui mi conviene abbassare la voce) la depressione. Ogni volta che guardi indietro…
Il Giappone è come un country club
Le chiesi se le mancava mai il Giappone. Sospirò e un’espressione calma le si dipinse sul viso. «Sì. No. Non lo so. I primi due anni mi mancava. Poi sono arrivati i bambini – sono gemelli – e due anni dopo sono venuti i miei genitori e si sono comportati malissimo. Continuavano…
Leielui (italian Edition) (de Carlo, Andrea)
I figli che crescono e si allontanano
Fino all’anno scorso avevano la naturalezza di una piccola tribù di selvaggi: la costante ricerca di contatto fisico e mentale, la sovrapposizione continua di voci e gesti, il parlarsi addosso, ridersi addosso, dormirsi addosso. C’era un fluido meraviglioso che scorreva tra…
Suocera e cognato, parole da temere
Lei non risponde; sta pensando ai termini inglesi e italiani che indicano le relazioni familiari acquisite. Le forme inglesi mother-in-law e father-in-law e sister-in-law eccetera le sembrano frutto di una logica coerente, che come una spada a due lame da un lato ti offre una…
Lessons From My Career Change: Five Ways To Make Your Move Sustainable | Guardian Careers | Guardian Professional
Career change: build your team
Who can help you accept that change happened, recognise opportunities and prepare yourself to embrace them? I enlisted others to help me: personal trainers, physiotherapists, coaches, friends and family. They didn't all know the answers, but they could help me experiment, learn…
Lonely Planet Iran (travel Guide)
Multigenerational Iranian families
Iranian society is more multigenerational than Western society, something that’s most obvious on holidays and weekends when you’ll see multigenerational families walking, laughing and picnicking together. (1100-1101)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Proactive organizations and families
Businesses, community groups, organizations of every kind—including families—can be proactive. They can combine the creativity and resourcefulness of proactive individuals to create a proactive culture within the organization.
Living scripts handed to us by others
In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances outside our Circle of Influence to shape much of our lives by default. We reactively live the scripts handed to us by family…
Parents trapped in the management paradigm
I’m convinced that too often parents are also trapped in the management paradigm, thinking of control, efficiency, and rules instead of direction, purpose, and family feeling. And leadership is even more lacking in our personal lives. We’re into managing with efficiency…
Family as a center undermines the family
Another common center is the family. This, too, may seem to be natural and proper. As an area of focus and deep investment, it provides great opportunities for deep relationships, for loving, for sharing, for much that makes life worthwhile. But as a center, it ironically…
Keeping balance among our roles
We each have a number of different roles in our lives—different areas or capacities in which we have responsibility. I may, for example, have a role as an individual, a husband, a father, a teacher, a church member, and a businessman. And each of these roles is important. One…
A family mission statement
Many families are managed on the basis of crises, moods, quick fixes, and instant gratification—not on sound principles. Symptoms surface whenever stress and pressure mount: people become cynical, critical, or silent or they start yelling and overreacting. Children who observe…
Monitoring the family mission daily
In our home, we put our mission statement up on a wall in the family room so that we can look at it and monitor ourselves daily. When we read the phrases about the sounds of love in our home, order, responsible independence, cooperation, helpfulness, meeting needs, developing…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Gran's sugared almonds
Then she would fish bleakly in a bag of sugared almonds that she produced from somewhere on her person, making a big show of offering me one, since she knew I detested them. (Unlike the box of fancy Belgian chocolates she bought on the sly and would hide in ever-changing places…
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
No time left for family
We spend less time with family and friends. The debates of the 1980s over quality time versus quantity time have disappeared. Today, for many, it is a stretch to find any time together!
Knowledge is social as well as personal
For years, early educators, schooled in Piaget’s theories, viewed children’s knowledge as being constructed from personal experiences. Although Vygotsky also believed this, he thought that personal and social experience cannot be separated. The world children inhabit is shaped…
Villa Metaphora (Andrea De Carlo)
Un'amante in ufficio, una famiglia che vuole cose
D’altra parte non erano state proprio queste caratteristiche fisiche e psicologiche ad attrarlo quando, su raccomandazione di qualcuno, era venuta per un colloquio nello studio a Milano, come se si presentasse a un esame universitario truccato? Non era stata la sua femminilità…