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Living With Borderline Personality Disorder
By
Linda Mintle
Living with someone with borderline personality disorder is not easy. “One minute I am her best friend and the next, she won’t talk to me. Everything is a crisis or a conflict. And I am wondering if I should even answer the constant text messages blowing up my phone.” This all or nothing behavior is characteristic…
Are School Shooting Drills a Good Idea?
By
Linda Mintle
Shooting drills are now part of most public schools. Similar to when, as children, we practiced tornado drills, these exercises have become routine. Some public school students have been participating in these drills since their grade school years. Often the drills are unannounced so students can practice how to handle a lockdown in case of a real…
Living Vicariously Through Your Children?
By
Linda Mintle
Parents, are you living vicariously through your children? Do you want them to fulfill your unfilled ambitions? Maybe you feel like a friend of mine who said, “I want to give my children the life I never had.” It’s a caring sentiment, but sometimes parents can take this idea too far. Sometimes, our desires to give our…
When Will My Child Start “Adulting”
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Linda Mintle
Are you looking at your nineteen-year-old and wondering when he will start “adulting?” He needs to wash his own sheets and go to bed before 11:00p.m.! And he definitely needs a full time job. You think, will he will ever leave home? A part of you likes seeing him at family dinners and another part is…
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