How To Make Friends as an Adult
Almost everybody struggles with it. But no one talks about it. What is it? How to discreetly sniff your own armpits in public? How not to buy the free sample after you just ate three of them? Not...
View ArticleStop Comparing Yourself to Others with These 5 Tips
Comparing yourself to others happens at every age, from noting who has the best toys in the preschool sandbox to whose grandkids got into what college. But comparing oneself to others is especially...
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5 Ways to Expand Your Child’s Social Skills
In my pack of 8 kids, several are very outgoing and socially savvy, one is shy, a couple are well ahead of their years when it comes to good social graces, and a couple more are socially appropriate...
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10 Ways to Celebrate Best Friends Day
One of the greatest joys in life is having a special person to call your best friend. Your BFF is by your side through thick and thin, and loves you unconditionally no matter what is going on in your...
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5 Ways to Manage Your Child's First Crush
I’ll never forget the first field trip I chaperoned for my oldest daughter, now 24 years old. Her Kindergarten class went to a local farm to have a hayride to the pumpkin patch. I was so excited to be...
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Negotiate More Money with These Simple Tricks
Jennifer Lawrence is ferklempt. She’s the star of the amazingly successful Hunger Games movies. For those of you who don’t know anything about Hunger Games, just think of a more competitive version of...
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How to Be an Amazing Listener
Good listeners attract people like an ice cream truck attracts kids. Why? Good listeners offer goodies even better than fudgesicles (if that’s even possible): validation, affirmation, and trust. In...
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4 Ways to Handle Your Child's Toxic Friendships
As summer winds down and a new school year rounds the corner, it’s quite normal for the entire family to have mixed emotions. The more relaxed, carefree days that encompass our summer schedule are...
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How to Politely Reject a Facebook Friend Request
In my very first episode as the Modern Manners Guy, I asked: “Do You Have Bad Facebook Manners?” I got many responses and one related question that keeps coming my way is: how can you politely decline...
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How to Be Persuasive Using the Right Language Cues
The problem with being a villian is that, well, you have to communicate like one. Villains don't explain, they command. It was a cold, gray morning and the Wicked Witch’s castle was chilled to the...
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4 Ways to Build Close Relationships That Last
Today, we'll learn to build and maintain strong relationships by using their multidimensional nature. (And I'm not just talking about the fact that all of us are just three-dimensional tentacles on an...
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5 Ways to Support an Unpopular Child
Every parent has their own style of raising children. Some are strict, others easygoing. There are those who set tight boundaries and those who go with the flow. We learn as we go, and ultimately we...
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How to Improve Communication by Text (and Texting)
Text changes the way we communicate. The conventions are changing quickly, and they affect how people perceive you. Back in the Stone Age, people used to communicate with each other by making the air...
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How to Psych Yourself Up with Good Self-Talk
Today’s topic is how to be more productive through self-talk.Thomas is troubled. As of his most recent birthday, he is Europa’s 16-year-old cybernetic genius son. And he’s discovering that having an IQ...
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How to Succeed by Trying to Fail
We all have things that we’d like to accomplish in our lives, but some things are so scary we just don’t do them. Whether it’s asking that special someone to the high school dance or jumping on the...
View ArticleHow To Make Friends as an Adult
Almost everybody struggles with it. But no one talks about it. What is it? How to discreetly sniff your own armpits in public? How not to buy the free sample after you just ate three of them? Not...
View ArticleStop Comparing Yourself to Others with These 5 Tips
Comparing yourself to others happens at every age, from noting who has the best toys in the preschool sandbox to whose grandkids got into what college. But comparing oneself to others is especially...
View ArticleHow to Strengthen Relationships with 'Process Conversations'
Relationships. I just love relationships. Friends, shmoopies, vendors, colleagues, bosses. Relationships are great, because you get to interact with another person. And how do you know they’re another...
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