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Love is a fascinating word that has many meanings with varying intensities.
· I have used it to refer to the feeling associated with highly desirable things or activities. For example I have said many times “I love pizza”, for indeed it is my favorite food.
· The word Love may be used to refer to something [...]

In a pure democracy each participant has an equal voice in what happens. In a dictatorship one ruler has absolute power over each of the participants. In essence the two social systems are on polar extremes of the same continuum.
A family is a social system that has characteristics of both a democracy and a dictatorship. [...]

One of the most common problems I encounter in working with families is the failure of parents to consistently follow through on a chosen strategy. More often than not, the strategies that parents instinctively choose have a good potential to work, but when applied inconsistently they fail.
You might ask, “Why would a parent implement a [...]

There is a very basic principle that applies to each of us regardless of our age. It can be imagined as one of those old scales where one can place items on both sides of the center fulcrum. On one side rests Independence and on the other rests Responsibility. Independence is the ability to act [...]

When trying to get our children to behave we have only two basic strategies that we can use: either make things pleasant or make them unpleasant. This may sound simple, but it is true. Let me give you an illustration that will help to make clearer what I have said.
Imagine a situation where your children [...]