Tag Archives: When

When Parents Text: So Much Said…So Little Understood

A collection of insanely funny texts between parents and kids, When Parents Text is a surprisingly affecting window into the complicated time when parents aren’t ready to let go, and kids aren’t ready to be let go. The parents are well-meaning but hopeless, silly and a little corny, and befuddled by the technology. The kids are bewildered yet patient: the perfect straight man. And the authors, two recent college graduates, Lauren Kaelin and Sophia Fraioli, have an unerring editorial instinct to select the funniest, sweetest, quirkiest, most-telling exchanges.There’s the revelatory: Mom: My fingers are saying words. This is amazing. The virtual scolding: Dad: I will deal with your sassy behavior when I get home. Meanwhile have some fiber.The autofill-challenged: Mom: dig up some tadpoles on ur way homo. Me: ummm, what? Mom: It autocorrected me. I mean to say dig up some tadpoles on ur way homo. (4 minutes later) Mom: PICK UP SOME TAMPONS ON YOUR WAY HOME.The manically
Sale Price:[productprice id=0761166041 web=com asotag=1amazingincom-20]

[amazon-product-reviews]

When Am I Going to Be Happy?: How to Break the Emotional Bad Habits That Make You Miserable [Mass Market Paperback]

When Am I Going to Be Happy?: How to Break the Emotional Bad Habits That Make You Miserable

Based on a popular course given at the New School in New York City, When Am I Going To Be Happy? teaches that many of the negative emotional habits that make us unhappy are learned behaviors which can be exchanged for habits that are life-giving, not life-wrecking. HC: Bantam.

From the Publisher

Learn to change the emotional bad habits that make you unhappy.- Recognize Your Emotional Bad Habits (and start to break them)- Throw Off Your Security Blanket (and accept that you can have happiness)- Talk Tenderly To Yourself (and increase self-esteem)- Use The “To You-Ness To Me-Ness” Technique (and respond to negative comments with firm conviction, not rage)- Get Rid Of The Imposter Phenomenon (and stop devaluing yourself)- Accept Praise (and cease being your own worst critic)- Stop Measuring Your Self

See all Editorial Reviews
(more…)

Related Blogs