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Today's Featured Books

Jan. 30, 2013

Today's Bestseller

Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

by Alfie Kohn
ISBN / ASIN: 0743487486

Conditional Parenting

I have sometimes derived comfort from the idea that, despite all the mistakes I've made (and will continue to make) as a parent, my children will turn out just fine for the simple reason that I really love them. After all, love heals all wounds. All you need is love. Love means never having to say you're sorry about how you lost your temper this morning in the kitchen.

This reassuring notion is based on the idea that there exists a thing called Parental Love, a single substance that you can supply to your children in greater or lesser quantities. (Greater, of course, is better.) But what if this assumption turns out to be fatally simplistic? ...


Today's Emerging Author
	Neurotic Man by Richard Georges ISBN / ASIN: 1624880495
Neurotic Man on a Stakeout I got this weird part-time/temporary/independent contractor gig that I’m sure is about finding this particular solution for the company at the same time keeping me distant for possible denial – almost like a spy thing. The ad in Craigslist went like this “Are you comfortable not moving? Is your eyesight keen? We may have the perfect job for you!” I am pretty good about not moving – sedentary should be my middle name. As for the eyesight thing, I don’t know, I’ve never been tested. I am quite competitive and would only settle for the highest grade. Since I’m not sure if I could achieve this at the optometrist I’ve decided on a truce with my eyes – I won’t test them as long as they don’t test me. For the job I had to sit in my car outside of this large building with four entrances, one on each side of the building from 9 to 5 and write down how many people entered and exited the building. The problem is, with the four entrances, how was I to keep an eye on them all? The ad specified “sedentary” so I took that to mean I should sit still and be like a tree. I found on one side of the building that looked ... Continue Reading