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September 2010
The Tyranny of Should
by Susan Pease Banitt, September 13, 2010
People often substitute “I should” for “I want”. I call this the beginning of internal civil war. The minute you say “I should” you have created division within your self. “I should” always comes from others; parents, rules, religious teachings, and cultural norms give us our shoulds. Not that this is necessarily bad. Read More
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For two weeks or so my kids have been bemoaning the end of summer and complaining about the stress of school, even to the point of tears. My husband and I have been scratching our heads because we were both school geeks. We couldn’t wait for the weather to turn, to find out what we would be learning next and to get our “bouquets of newly sharpened pencils” as Nora Ephron wittily put it in the classic film Y...
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