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Articles by julia.d.wise

Handling emotions better over time

Developing skills and mellowing with age

You don’t have to treat pets as family members

Why do we treat pets so differently from other animals?

Developing the middle ground on polarized topics

Avoiding false dichotomies

Inner dialogue, walking down the sidewalk

A discussion I have with myself a lot

Advice for getting along with your kids

Lessons learned from the first 10 years

Two 19th-century missionary memoirs in China

Life for an American family in 1860s China

Relaxing my standards on housekeeping

Getting to “good enough”

Children’s appearance is over-controlled

Giving up control over choices that don’t belong to me

Tool: “Is this causing a problem?”

A method for not sweating the small stuff

Coaching kids as they learn to climb

Helping kids learn to climb things that are at the edge of their ability

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