Kid donations, 2020 and 2021

I told L that Jeff and I would give her $20 to donate as she chose at the end of December. We sat down and she listed her ideas, which were all about helping homeless people.

Kids, gifts, and materialism

My older kids are 7 and 5, and we’ve hit a period of envy and materialism that’s made Christmas a bit more complicated.

Book review: The Origins of You

The dual-risk hypothesis: an underlying vulnerability puts one at risk of developing a problem, but only when a particular stress is experienced.