Meanings of Grief Emotions
The emotion of grief is not the same in every person. We think of people grieving as a normal process of anguish when a person has died or when some loss has occurred. Some people grieve for the loss of a valued person. These people may question whether they did...
Meanings of Anger
Often we see anger expressed in a single outburst. This may appear to us to be excessive and unreasonable. If the person’s self-control is in doubt, we may even think them irrational. But, if we can observe events that led up to the anger outburst we might see the...
Meanings of Good Humor
We stereotype good humor as an ability some people have to stay happy and cheerful under any circumstance. The cliché, “All fat people are jolly,” is such a stereotype. Some people use humor to entertain others when these others are sad, angry or belligerent. They are...
Meanings of Crying
When a person is seen weeping, we usually interpret that the person is very sad. This usually elicits empathy from an empathetic person. Some people are hyper-saddened by misfortunes of friends, family and even people they have no connection with. Such people become...
What Do Your Emotions Mean?
A misleading common assumption is that the same emotion has identical meanings for all people. This is not so. Different people perceive the same emotion differently. And, people have different reasons for the same emotion. Over the next ten blogs I will discuss these...
Well-Behaved Children—The Benefits and the Pitfalls
We have an abundance of selfish, undisciplined children in our society. But, what about children who are well-disciplined, unselfish and achieving well? We all have some of these in our families. They are obedient, compliant, agreeable, mostly reserved and...
Reasonable and Unreasonable Parenting
We live in a society, in the United States, with a marked overindulgence of many of our children, perhaps even the majority. Parents do not often say, “no,” and if they do, they don’t enforce it in real practice. Such children learn they can do what they want without...
Same Family But the Children Are All Different
Do your children have the same personalities? Or, are they all very different from one another? Most people are perpetually amazed how their children can be so very different from one another. Even families with identical twins will say the twins have distinct, and...
What Messages Does a Child Learn About Relating?
The unconscious messages parents give to children about conducting relationships are the messages a child will learn. The unconscious messages may be inconsistent with the conscious messages parents teach. They may negate one another entirely. The child may be...Connect with Dr. Adams
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