Tag: Adult

“In a hurry to take revenge, Blacky quickly jumped in the drum filled with hot molten bitumen…” “Wow! That’s dark for a children’s magazine,” I mused in startled silence. My adult brain’s imagination went into overdrive — ear-bleeding yowl...

When I was younger, my brother and I learned how to read the Quran, in Arabic, from a terrifying old man. Friday nights my dad would shlep us to Dr. Khan’s house. My brother and I weren’t close back then but those nights, we clung to each other for dear life. It’s an understatem...

The only acceptable reason to have kids is that you want to nurture and care for another being. That’s it. That’s all of the good reasons. Not because you want someone to take care of you on your old age, not because you want them to take on a certain career. None of that. To have such e...

You might think this article isn’t for everyone, but I actually believe it is. Introverts, extroverts, ambiverts — we can all unite in the reality that the quality of our lives is largely influenced by the types of people we spend our time with. There are, of course, going to be those...

If I had to summarize my ADHD experience in one sentence it would be this: Chasing a life where everything you do is exciting and avoiding everything that could be even slightly boring. October is ADHD awareness month and I think it’s time I tell you how ADHD affects my everyday life — i...

If I had to summarize my ADHD experience in one sentence it would be this: Chasing a life where everything you do is exciting and avoiding everything that could be even slightly boring. October is ADHD awareness month and I think it’s time I tell you how ADHD affects my everyday life — i...

In his new book, “Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail,” Ray Dalio discusses very interesting aspects about the rise and fall of empires during the last 500 years and the commonalities they all exhibit. Dalio noticed a unique conv...

Stories about this study from Savings.com about how nearly fifty percent of us with adult children help support them financially certainly apply to yours truly. Perhaps better suited to a publication called The Unmaking of a Millionaire, I, too, contribute somewhere in the nei...

After I received my formal diagnosis, I had to navigate the experience of telling my friends and family. It was mostly awful and just added to how traumatic a late-in-life autism diagnosis is. At the time I didn’t have the words to articulate what was going on and what I needed or wanted fr...

Cells in the brain are wired together like an electric circuit that can relay information from one area of the brain to the next. Even when sleeping, the human brain continues to send signals to process information it has encountered during the day. This results in two patterns of electrical activit...

Many adult children of alcoholics feel like they are attracted to toxic people. This is an insidious problem I still struggle with. For years, I asked my fellow 12-step members and the numerous therapists I have seen, “Why am I attracted to toxic people?” I have received countless differ...

I just spent a week with my semi-adult children, and it was basically the same as when they were fourteen years old and living in my house all the time. Except now when they come home to visit, they are accompanied by life partners, pets, and legal cannabis. I watched a fully grown man snuggle hi...

Introduction: In the realm of adult education, embedding social-emotional and character development (SECD) becomes pivotal for cultivating a positive and inclusive learning environment. Community-based organizations, serving as crucibles for adult ESOL programs, play a vital role in addressing th...