Favorite Articles This Week

In an article entitled The Insidious Evils of the “Like” Culture, Mr. Strauss explains how this current generation finds self worth in the amount of” likes”  it receives on facebook, and reinvents themselves based on feedback,  instead of being liberated to be themselves. Think “peer pressure” on steroids.

He explains: “The”Like” culture is antithetical to the concept of self-esteem, which a healthy individual should be developing from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Instead, we are shaped by our stats, which include not just “likes” but the number of comments generated in response to what we write and the number of friends or followers we have.”

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Spiritual Mothering could never be more relevant in a generation where parents were  absent due to divorce. This article, The Divorce Generation, explains: “Orphans as parents—that’s not a bad way to understand Generation X parents. Having grown up without stable homes, we pour everything that we have into giving our children just that, no matter how many sacrifices it involves.”

Did you know: “Marketing surveys reveal that Generation X mothers don’t seek parenting advice from their own moms. Why would we take counsel from the very people who, in our view, flubbed it all up? Instead, says the research, we depend on the people who actually raised us, albeit wolf-pack style: our friends.” here

Although I know that my readers are not rude, the question was raised: Are we getting ruder as a society? Rudeness, among other things, is not respecting people’s time and space –  in areas of waiting in lines, lines, traffic, tight parking lots, incessant mobile communication and the like.   here