If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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January 2010
A Basic Proposal
by Susan Pease Banitt, January 24, 2010I have an idea to save money in the military. Let’s do away with basic training and boot camp. Let’s take young people who have spent their entire lives following the rules of an orderly society, who have never killed anything bigger than a fly, whose idea of exercise is twiddling their thumbs in front of an x-box, put a gun in their hands and send them overseas. Young people are resilient ...
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Dealing With Insomnia
by Susan Pease Banitt, January 8, 2010Lately my thirteen year-old daughter and I have been talking about insomnia. She tries to go to bed at the normal bedtime around 10pm, but is often awake until and past midnight. After limit setting, cajoling, psychoanalyzing and bribing, we have both come to realize there may be something constitutional about her sleep pattern. After all, I am just the same. And so is my mother. |
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