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Reverse psychology and other ways of being a jerk without your kids knowing it
Welcome to this week’s installment of WTF Wednesday, where research and fact-finding are really important priorities unless there’s other stuff to do. This week’s question comes via Twitter by Brick Wade (A.K.A @BrickWade). She writes: Dear Barmy, How do I politely tell my children to stop talking because frankly, I’ve had enough? My first […]
Buck up and take it like a rabbit
August 24, 2011
There’s this term they taught us in psych 101. It’s called learned helplessness. Here’s how it works: if you stick a rabbit in a cage and electrify the floor, the little guy will freak out and jump, trying to avoid the pain. Do it again and he’ll freak out again. But if you do it […]
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I've become my parents 
July 11, 2012
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