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Your children are slaves to their smartphones
Summary: Today’s teens and pre-teens are overly reliant on technology, lazy, self-entitled, and are the worst read of any generation.
OR ARE THEY?
Full Story: ZDNET
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What sustains life and health?
Fresh air. Lots of clean water. Adequate sleep. Nutritious food. Exercising the body. Exercising the mind in positive ways. Happiness.
I’m thinking of how my life has sometimes gone off the rails, and it’s usually when I neglect these areas. I stay cooped up…
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Lightning strikes the Willis Tower in downtown Chicago on early June 12, 2013.
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Antidepressants excreted from humans are flooding waterways and making fish homicidal.
Source: poptech
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Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 have skyrocketed. It’s true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It’s forcing Americans to read.
Source: inothernews
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When it comes to self-esteem, it occurs to me that there are three ways of thinking.
At one extreme is “the opinions of others mean everything.” Many people (especially young women) go through this during adolescence; others take longer to grow out of it (if they do at all). We all know someone…
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“Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. Success is the ability to fulfill your desires with effortless ease. And yet success, including the creation of wealth, has always been considered to be a process that…
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“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstances.”
- Bruce Barton
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I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn’t think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.
Source: always-have-a-dream
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