Once upon a time, I played Bad Boss and gave Elle a performance review while she was in kindergarten. She didn’t understand a word I was saying. That was two years ago. Now it’s December—the annual season of reviews—and at the Seiden household we are once again reviewing performance. New year, new review, new garbage [...]
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Child’s Play
This calendar year alone, various Seidens have had the following things removed from their bodies, mostly intentionally: An appendix Tonsils Adenoids A gallbladder Bits of liver 3 different fingernails (ouchouchouch!!!) 10 teeth, give or take 8 inches of hair (at one shot) Fragments of toe bone Looking at this list reminded me not to focus [...]
Life got you down? Relax. You’re an angel. Seriously. Planet Earth is nothing but a vacation for you from spirit land. A pretty extreme vacation, that is! And like any extreme vacation, you’re experience here is influenced heavily by who ends up in your group (read: family, work group, friends, etc.), by the weather, and [...]
Well, we finally have an answer to How to Self-Destruct, courtesy of Elle. This one caught me by surprise and completely made me laugh: Jason Seiden is Co-founder and CEO of Ajax Social Media, a training company that shows professionals how use social media to work more effectively.
People make their world smaller and smaller until they can understand them. My daughter asked me why more people weren’t good to the earth. She’s not yet eight, and yet even she figured out that “wasting things is bad.” Why didn’t more people act on something so obvious, she wondered? I told her it’s because [...]
A court in the United Arab Emirates has decided that a man may physically punish his wife and children as long as no visible marks are left. Jihad Hashim Brown, an expert contacted by CNN called bullshit: “When a situation in a marriage reaches the point where people feel like they need to hit someone, [...]
“Think, do, be thanked.” This is Elle’s new mantra. It rocks. Here’s a little video about where this phrase came from. Now, what will you do with it? Go forth and find out! Jason Seiden is Co-founder and CEO of Ajax Social Media, a training company that shows professionals how use social media to [...]
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