Passive Aggressive Diaries  Understanding passive aggressive
behavior in families, schools, and workplaces  Nothing Comes
from Nothing: Looking Beyond a Child's Surface Behavior  Do your
responses alleviate a problem better or make it worse?  I am
spending my week with 150+ Trainers from the Life Space Crisis
Intervention Institute, for our organization's Trainer re-
Certification Conference. You can not find a more dedicated
group of educators, psychologists, social workers, counselors,
or mental health professionals anywhere. What an honor to be
spending my days this way.  To celebrate, I am posting an
article I recently wrote about using LSCI principles in
parenting:  This morning, my 7-year old daughter was playing a
game on one of her favorite child-friendly websites, when all of
a sudden, the computer froze up. She tried practicing patience,
assuming the squirrels who power our older machine were running
slowly. She attempted a re-start-Mama's trick for fixing any
piece of technology. She even walked awa