I'm currently using EMDR to address certain childhood traumas and, in my experience, it works amazingly well. While I was skeptical at first, my therapist helped me understand how the trauma keeps resurfacing and how the emotions associated with it get stuck in a sort of feedback loop. My previous years of Cognitive…

You magnificent bastard.

It reminded me more of this commercial.

If my son really wanted to be something that wasn't going to bring in money, but was okay with living a simpler life, then my lessons would be geared towards finding mentors, networking, and figuring out how to live on less.

I'm not amused.

This is the most insightful comment I've read in this discussion, by far. I can recall my uncomfortable experiences when I was a growing up of several funerals for people I barely knew (great aunts/uncles, distant cousins of my parents). But thank goodness we didn't have the distraction devices back then. Instead…