Hi all,

The Christmas tree is cut down, the turkey has been sacrificed, and the trees are naked (a lot of death this time of year now that I think about it). The Christmas season is here.

With that, there comes some life with this announcement. We have a new member of the family: Geronimo Boogeytown. We bit the bullet and the Elf on the Shelf made it to our house. Mr. Boogeytown brought with him many more questions and concerns (legs without feet?!) than excitement. We’ll see where this goes.

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.

Brian

New Blog Posts

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Mind

• Resilience: 3 Takeaways

• 10 Life Lessons I Learned as an Occupational Therapist: Part 1

• Time (a guest post by Greg Mallon)

  
  
  

Body

• Hormesis for Strength and Resilience: What It Is and How to Use it

• The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferris: 3 Takeaways
  
  
  

Dad

• Trucks and Other Kid Obsessions: What’s Normal and What Should You Do About It?

• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk: 3 Takeaways

• 36 of the Best Gifts to Get Your Truck-Obsessed Kid

• Fever? You Probably Shouldn’t Treat It (for you or your kids)

New!

• I added a “Book Recommendations” page to the site which is a complication of my favorite books broken down into a few sections. I’m always looking for good recommendations so shoot me an email if you have a good one.

The MBD Corner

Mind

• The top 10 most regretted (and least regretted) majors.

• Life satisfaction by age.

Body

• Where emotions are felt in the body. An interesting heat map of where the human body feels different emotions.

• This is hilarious. A montage of astronauts trying to walk on the moon.

• Does anyone else have coworkers who have a weekly debate of the best and worst apples? Here is every apple ranked from the best (Sweet Tango with a score of 93) to the worst (Newtown Pippin Apples with a score of 19).

Dad

• An excerpt from Adam Grant’s article, “Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids.”

“To demonstrate that caring is a core value, we realized that we needed to give it comparable attention. We started by changing our questions. At our family dinners, we now ask our children what they did to help others. At first, “I forget” was the default reply. But after a while, they started giving more thoughtful answers. “I shared my snack with a friend who didn’t have one,” for example, or “I helped a classmate understand a question she got wrong on a quiz.” They had begun actively looking for opportunities to be helpful, and acting upon them.”

• Financial Samurai wrote an interesting article about adults who push their kids toi play sports but don’t play any sports themselves.

• On that note, here are the odds of making it to the NBA, MLB, NHL, and NFL. That “1” is probably your kid though, crazy sideline parent.

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