Mother’s Day 2020

From a Baby Boom to a Baby Bust generation

How your attitudes to money could be affecting your relationship

A warning label for social media platforms?!

Inflation: from supply-side to demand-side?

Rights & duties: vaccination

Demographic extinction versus nationalism

Exit strategy (2)

Cutting ties

A healthy mind in a healthy body

‘We hebben aan de universiteit meer rechts onderzoek en meer rechtse onderzoekers nodig’ (De Standaard)

Tainted love

“The enemy of a woman is a woman”

The strawberry or wimp generation

Life is a series of separation events

Completed life

The most important ingredient for happiness (Axios)

Priority vs option

We’re not OK (Axios)

Parental alienation

The paradoxical origin of misogyny

Is it better being alone than being with the wrong one?

Why Japanese couples aren’t having kids (Bloomberg)

China’s Demographic Balloon Is Rapidly Losing Altitude (WSJ)

Demographics

The age of the grandparent has arrived (Economist)

Why do we deny?

Relevance vs irrelevance

How to restore togetherness in a society?

Relationship vs Situationship

“Are you alright?”

Ageing means Nothing Really Matters

The new Flapper generation

Will high inflation reverse the rise of single-person households?

Parents learn children to speak; children learn parents to be silent.

The rich get richer, the poor get poorer

Parenting

Compensation

Quitting dating is like quitting smoking

Entitlement

Leaving a trail

Criticism

“Solitude has always been my analgesic of choice.”

Pushing boundaries

The road to self-love or philautia

Most of Us Combine Personality Traits from Different Genders (Scientific American)

The dark side of Hope

Sanctions

The World Younger Russians Knew Is Over (Bloomberg)

Peace dividends and European welfare states

The useful idiots are spinning the news

Competence vs confidence

Failure

Gratitude

The Big-small principle

Desiderata (1927) by Max Ehrmann

The shadow over any past relationship

The Dutch childcare benefits scandal

Obedience to authority: respect vs Power

Life is a journey along its destinations

New York Times Retracts Massive Exaggeration of Children Hospitalized by COVID-19 (NR)

The new population bomb (NIKKEI)

Health, Wealth & Self

Why is leadership restricted to animals and humans?

About a boy

In Children, Risk of Covid-19 Death or Serious Illness Remains Extremely Low, New Studies Find (WSJ)

I have faith in you. I believe in you.

I cannot, I may not, I don’t want to

Helicopter parents and backseat children

Growth and motivation

Money matters

The mix is far more important than the ingredients

Authenticity: balancing EQ, IQ, PQ and SQ

If Good does bad, does Good become Bad?

Why don’t we retire retirement homes?

Trust works better both ways

No More Fear of Dying

My worst fear is becoming reality

Symbiosis and consciousness

Suppose, just suppose………..

Do you understand me?

Mother’s Day 2020

Our fear of dying

Leaders and checks & balances

Why is it so hard to reconnect to someone?

Famous Geneticist’s Dating App Would Match Users Based on DNA (Futurism)

Don’t patronize me

The pain of a first name

The Best Parenting Advice Is to Go Live in Europe (Atlantic)

Reflections on Time

Why must each generation learn everything again?

Reciprocity

Je m’en fous

Silent sorrow

Something Special Is Happening in Rural America (NYT)

John Marsden on the ‘toxic’ parenting pandemic: ‘I’ve never seen this level of anxiety’ (Guardian)

U.S. Birthrate Drops 4th Year in a Row, Possibly Echoing the Great Recession (NYT)

Fear and fertility

The more intelligence, the more beliefs, the less trust

Dutch public school system

The future Great Divide between generations

The art of compromising

Independence

The Search for a Long, Lost Child (Spiegel)

The Little-Known Tragedy of Forced Adoptions in East Germany (Spiegel)

The new generational conflict and divide

Researchers find rare instances of male mtDNA being passed on to offspring (Medical Xpress)

Stress oorzaak enorme crisis (Telegraaf)

Record three in ten Japanese are over 65 as population crisis grows (UK Times)

A World With Fewer Babies Spells Economic Trouble (Bloomberg)

The complexity bias (8) – Urbanization (2)

Jongere is bang om te bellen, ‘appen en mailen is veiliger’ (Stentor)

Communication, thoughts and language

Stockholm syndrome in relationships

Corporations running Governments

Making amends vs reconciliation

Time chill factor

Fear of death

Vaccines – the Truth as a Belief system

Rejection (1) – the hurting

To Be Forgiven

ADHD: nature, nurture and Wi-Fi

Faith, Beliefs and Willpower (2) – Choices

The Elite vs the People

The Unneeded, Unwanted & Unbelieved

The Right Woman

The 10 Commandments

I am lucky

Recognition and Appreciation

Everything used to be better………

Dignity and mercy

Human Emotions (2) – a revisit

Belief systems – Science (3)

The Silent Treatment (2)

Fear of Failure

We don’t need you

How are you?

The “what if” question

Right to be wrong

Interstellar

The Age of Maturity

Damaged goods

The Silent Treatment

Keeping your distance

Symbolism – Friday 13 November 2015

What’s your story?

Urbanisation

Saying “NO”

Show some emotion

The AND / OR dilemma

Apologies and the 7 reasons for non-apologists

Our individual purpose

How pain defines us

Relationships – purpose

Relationships – pre-conditions, maintenance and purpose

Dating, modern romance, and soulmates

I never forget a face, but in your case I’d be glad to make an exception. Groucho Marx.

The paradox of homosexuality in evolution

The Heart of the Matter

Sabbatical

Dutch kids and parents

Growing old

Fear and Hope. Hope and Fear.

Success and Failure

Extreme Parental Guidance

Family businesses

Secular stagnation and change triggers

Why do we hate insects ?

Communication, language, speech and the Google Translate for Animals app

When the music stops playing……….. (movie Margin Call, 2011)

The Promise and Fear of Change

The Game Theory – macro and micro

Geluk en (Talent x Discipline) / Ego = Output

Balans in leven en leven in balans

Familie herinneringen

Vervreemding

Excuses

Het zal je familie maar wezen…….. (‘t Schaep met de 5 pooten, 1969)

Papa, ik lijk steeds meer op jou (Stef Bos, 1991)

Good Cop, Bad Cop

Vraag uit 2008: “Waarom gaan jullie niet scheiden????”

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