simple truths

There are plenty of times where holding your ground and refusing to back down is the right thing to do.  Holding your ground is different than demanding someone else let you stand on their ground. In the sensitive nature of the words spoken between two people in love, when one has found their bravery; To risk uttering the hardest words a person could say to one they still love- "We are through;" To respect this is love. Your words may express your desires, but only if respect accompany them. You can not stand your ground on land you are no longer invited to stand on, no matter what access you had before. When someone who cares for you, but had to chose caring for themselves more, is forced to speak those hard words twice... Their courage may fail, and you might bend their will. But a bent will doesn't mean a changed mind. That is not love nor respect. It's bullying at best. You may win back their space, but their heart won't be in it.

Are We Making Our Children Addicts? Video Games, Sugar, TV Shows, Snacks, Toys...Our babies are becoming pheens! Constantly in pursuit of, and hungering for, some____.       www.urbandictionary.com defines "Pheen" (slang for fiend);  To urge for something,  not necessarily pheening       for drugs, but dope things in life. The begging and bargaining for more video game and TV time, or the plea for one more piece of candy, is not just childish behavior- it's more similar to the drug seeking behaviors you would find in addicts.That near panic kids sometimes exhibit when their favorite show is about to get shut off; or how they'll do  anything  for more video game time- even ungodly things like the dishes!      “Addiction” includes loss of control and an obsessive-compulsive pattern that takes on a life of its              own. Physiologic...changes leading to tolerance, withdrawal o...