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Parent-Child Journeys Present a Few Pitfalls

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"Under the horse chestnut tree", 1 print : drypoint and aquatint, color ; (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) There's a time to teach, to show, to model... and then a time to let go... ----- TOM BRADY The parent -child bond is fraught with emotional and physical trials every step of the way. But what happens to the parent nearing those final days of nurturing? Madeline Levine spent her career as a psychologist and a writer – and mother – with the belief that her job was to prepare her three sons to live independently and enthusiastically move into adulthood. But now that the youngest of her three sons is out of college, and the older two are doing just what she wanted for them all along, her reaction surprised her. “How odd that I should be blindsided by a sense of loss as my sons move fully into lives of their own,” she wrote in The Times . “Some part of me must have known that each move toward independence – from zipping a jacket to hanging out at the mall...

Wanting Privacy, Posting Anyway

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Facebook logo Español: Logotipo de Facebook Français : Logo de Facebook Tiếng Việt: Logo Facebook (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) BY KATE MURPHY Imagine a world suddenly devoid of doors. The controlling authorities say if you aren’t doing anything wrong, then you shouldn’t mind. That’s essentially the state of affairs on the Internet. There is no privacy. Increasingly, people are coming to understand how their online data might be used against them. You might not get a job, a loan or a date because of an indiscreet tweet. But less obvious is the psychic toll. “With all the focus on the legal aspects of privacy and the impact on global trade there’s been little discussion of why you want privacy and why it’s intrinsically important to you as an individual,” said Adam Joinson of the University of the West of England in Bristol. Perhaps that’s because there is no agreement over what constitutes private information. It varies among cultures, genders and individuals. Moreover, i...