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When I think of resiliency in modern day terms, I think of my friend Ariana Huffington, who, as a sixteen-year-old from Greece, entered Girton College at Cambridge University. She decided to join a debate team – the highly recognized Cambridge Union Society. As you can imagine, each year brought its own challenges for a young

Recently, I watched the mini-series "Genius," on the National Geographic Channel, which was the story of the life of Albert Einstein. Einstein struggled for most of his early life with the fact that he viewed the world through a different prism; that his ideas of physics were abstract and difficult to prove. And, on top

One in ten children gets bullied every day. Hundreds of children don’t go to school because of their fear of being bullied. What does this say about us and our school culture? Children start complaining about bullying as early as elementary school, and, if bullying is allowed to go unchecked, it can have lasting and

In our busy, always-in-a-rush society, I have found meditation to be especially calming and beneficial to parents and children alike. You may think your child is too young or incapable of meditation, but even children as young as age three are able to sit next to you and mimic your meditation, eventually settling into their

Since Freud believed that aggression is man’s natural state, it follows that such aggression can function outside of the realm of the ownership of private property. Furthermore, since aggression, according to Freud, is innate, it comes before the idea of ownership. As Freud (1961) stated: “Aggressiveness was not created by property. It reigned almost without