As a teacher, I feel like I am responsible for many things that go beyond my curriculum. One of these things is to teach my kids about honesty and integrity by exploring the concept of lying through omission ( Read more... )

There are many lies self-injurers tell themselves. I know them well because I used to say them and believe them. But they are lies. And I think once I was confronted with the lies I believed, I was forced to fully face what I was doing, who I was hurting (and it was more than just myself) and what I thought would happen if I gave myself permission ( Read more... )

I hate it when you ask a person for their advice, and then if you don't take it, they get their feelings hurt and resent you for it. This happens in my life a lot. It seems that people in my life always feel at liberty to tell me "what they would do" and although a new perspective is always nice, advice should be one of those things that comes with ( Read more... )

Growing up, children are taught to keep secrets. "No one likes a tattletale!" Secrets are pieces of information that are traditionally private and therefore not to be known by the world. In some instances, secrets are harmless, but in other cases, secrets shouldn't be kept ( Read more... )