One thing I did when I was in a bad mood was the "Pay it forward" thing at a local taco bell. Did a few times after that, and once I went through the drive through again the following day, they told me they actually had it going for 10 cars in the drive through. Made me smile.

As a student of psychology & sociology, with 40-years of life experience - no children, but nieces, a nephew, and general awareness, I liked this infographic. It's simple and too the point, while drawing attention to some things that parents may be missing out on. Kids are much smarter and more aware of things than…

We can only really work on the nurture part, though, so that's what we have to consider.

A lot of really great advice there, of course, but some is phrased in a too-confident fashion. Not saying it's not good, just saying we should consider carefully. Nearly all child-rearing studies have one or both of two problems. 1) they're short term (a couple of years at most), or 2) they don't evaluate…

And parents don't need words to communicate a life attitude to their kids. Words were only *part* of how I was taught to feel about the world, good and bad. There were mannerisms, tones of voice, posturing, vibes, the atmosphere in the home, things done. Words were more like a topmost layer of communication.

There are many ways to discipline children and "getting a lick or two" sure is one way of teaching what is right and what is wrong but it is not the only one. I am sure I will get flamed for this now but I think hitting a child is a too easy way out. Yes, you can make it short and drastic and the kid will learn or you…

Sounds like you don't have the personalization option checked in your voice settings

Will this make me finally switch from the iPhone (I doubt it because I adore my iTunes music library being on one device I carry everywhere)? I asked all these same questions of Siri and she could not answer:

"what's this song?" doesn't work outside of the US i believe. i'm in canada with a S4 there's no music icon and when i voice search it, it just says "action not supported in your country."

There is an extra step to reminders, unfortunately you have to click to save the reminder, which kinda sucks.

Google now is amazing!! I love it! :D

One of my new favorite features is the ability to ask Google Now the release day of a movie and set a reminder a week before it comes out. I did this with Man of Steel and getting the reminder is like a little spark of excitement.

One of my favorites (that goes along with Reminders) is the location based ones. Like "remind me to get batteries at Target" and the next time you're at Target, the reminder will sound. I use this all the time since I pass a grocery store on the way home. I use things like "Remind me to get milk at Giant" and the…

Chromebooks have top notch hardware, but without having to pay for the premium of a Macbook or Windows ultrabook. The problem is they come pre-installed with Chrome OS, which only lets you surf the web and use Chrome web-apps. The method in this article allows you to install a full fledged PC operating system, so you…

Yeah I'm fine with shooting people in the face, but WOAH NOW, taking a superstitious dip? I'm outtie.

I find it amusing that he would find a mock baptism more of a problem than the countless acts of murder he would have been very willing to cope with. This is personally something I find backwards about some people's religious beliefs. In my eyes murder is many times worse than blasphemy. The one is a breach of…

This doesn't really surprise me, honestly. I think Nintendo's been sort of passively trying to sidestep that "family" reputation they have, because it's really starting to cripple them whenever a game that isn't Mario or Zelda gets brought up. And I mean, have you seen the radical new art style that Awakening uses?…

You can thank Dachis for those ridiculous images.

@edmicman: You're saying you don't see why there isn't a free contender, and that Ultramon costs too much, while DisplayFusion, sitting at the top of the list, does pretty much everything UltraMon does (and with the aero peek abilities on the second monitor it looks like more from a few other comments people have…