Forget dating. Forget striking a balance between work and family. Most single parents, whether they are divorced, widowed, or sing...le by choice, report that discipline is by far the toughest issue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel a... continuing sense that they have deprived their kids of the second parent, and so they tend to give in to the children's requests, even when unreasonable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's important for all single parents to remember that not everything that goes wrong, from your son's bad attitude toward school ...to the six holes in your teenage daughter's ear, is because you live in a single-parent home. Every family has its problems.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yes, single-parent families are different from two-parent families. And urban families are different from rural ones, and families... with six kids and a dog are different from one-child, no-pet households. But even if there is only one adult presiding at the dinner table, yours is every bit as much a real family as are the Waltons.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Under equal conditions, the feminine psyche is closer to potential contraction than the masculine; for the simple reason that the ...woman has a more centripetal, integrated, and elastic mind. As we noted, the function charged with giving the mind its structure and cohesion is the attention. A highly unified mind presupposes a highly concentrated manner of attention. One could say that the feminine mind tends to have a single axis of attention, which at each phase of her life is set toward one thing alone.... In contrast to the concentric structure of the feminine mind there are always epicenters in that of the man. The more masculine one is, in a spiritual sense, the more his mind is disjointed in separate compartments. One part of us is deeply dedicated to politics or business, while another devotes itself to intellectual curiosity and another to sexual pleasure. There is lacking, then, a tendency toward one unified gravitation of the attention. In fact, the contrary predominates, which leads to dissociation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A single monk carries his own bucket of water; two monks carry their bucket of water together; but when there are three monks, the...re is no water at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »