5 03, 2013

Parenting: Is Technology Preventing Two Key Ingredients for Kids’ Relationships?

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Selflessness and empathy are two of the most important ingredients for children to develop healthy relationships. Selflessness involves the capacity for children to place the concerns of others appropriately ahead of their own. It allows others to sense that, whatever children do, their interests will be considered. Empathy is the ability for children to understand [...]

23 10, 2012

Parenting/Popular Culture/Technology: Are Media Creating a Generation of Narcissists?

By | October 23rd, 2012|Categories: Parenting, Popular Culture, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , |1 Comment

The externalization of children’s self-identities caused by the omnipresence of popular culture and social media today, that I discussed in my last post, has resulted in an unhealthy internal focus on the self among young people these days. Do you recall the story of Narcissus? The handsome fellow in Greek mythology who, because of his [...]