First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.

Almost no one can take on an entire future in one step, much less while reeling emotionally.

We all make deals with ourselves when it comes to the difficult people in our lives.

Bodies and minds need breaks or the work suffers, this has been proven and reproven to the point where we don't even need to post links to support it.

One way to make tough decisions is to take incremental steps that don't commit you to anything yet.

And if you're a parent who thinks you're okay because your kid doesn't have a phone or iPod yet, and/or you've used all the parent controls to filter out explicit material, you're not okay. The filters are tissue paper and your kid without a phone is on a school bus or in a locker room or at a public park with phone-equipped kids every day. And they're like all kids in exploring - by whatever means available to them - exactly what their parents are treating as too embarrassing or taboo to talk about.

All of us assign different values to things, and not all of those values are going to line up with others'.