We stop asking the question "Why?" about the time we begin to think we understand it all. This usually occurs in adolescence. Once the adolescent attitudes begin to mature into adulthood, it should be ...

I’ve been teaching long enough to recognize when something fundamental is shifting in the classroom. Lately, that shift sounds like a single word echoing through my courses: why. Why are we doing this ...

Sound familiar? So many parents can get fed up with the never-ending series of "Why? Why? Why?" questions from their children, never more so than during a pandemic lockdown. It turns out, it's ...

Unfortunately, fear is part of life, and as a species, we humans have evolved to focus more on the things we fear than the things we want. And it’s a normal human reaction to avoid the things that ...