Spanking is Wrong for These Three Reasons
As a psychologist, I often am asked questions related to children, child rearing, and development. One comment I often get from students and parents…
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Defying Classification
I’m writing this post, the first in over a month (my bad!) from a hotel room in New Orleans. I’m down here for the…
Read essayChapter 30: Quiet
[nnwm15] Well, here it is – the last chapter. These last 10 chapters have been on the shorter side, definitely something I’d expand out…
Read essayChapter 22: The Long and Winding Road
[nnwm15] Many years ago, when she was about Jamie’s age, G-ma had learned how to knit from her grandmother. The old woman would…
Read essayChapter 10: Repression
[nnwm15] After that dim, the core group spent much of the next day trying to regain their composure. Ryan and Jamie basically ignored…
Read essayChapter 9: Escape
[nnwm15] “Come over here” “Why are you whispering” “Just follow me” “I don’t want to” “Just do it” “Fine” “We’re gonna get out…
Read essayChapter 4: Sara Beth
[nnwm15] Sara Beth sat in the corner of the room crying, alternating from light sniffles to harder sobs as she tried harder and harder…
Read essayChapter 2: G-ma
[nnwm15] Mrs. Corum stood there, blinking several times to be sure she was seeing what she thought she saw. There sitting before her was…
Read essayChapter 1: Mrs. Corum
[nnwm15] I hope you enjoy this story. In it we are introduced to Mrs. Corum, a lovely person, albeit a tired person. I…
Read essayAnnouncing Jon’s National Novel Writing Month 2015 Project: A Serial Novel You Can Read Here!
Several weeks ago I sat with a group of students and asked them to think about all the things they had going on in…
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