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Are You Raising An Introvert?
photo: PhotoEuphoria, istock photography It’s not easy being an introvert in an extrovert world—especially when you’re a kid. It is even more difficult if none of the adults in the kid’s life...
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Shyness Study Predicts How Kids Respond to Challenging Social Situations
Imagine your child on a school playground. Things don’t go as planned: your child is excluded from a game. How would you like your child to respond? By insisting to be included, or shrugging and...
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Students Shouldn’t Have to Speak in Front of the Class
Image: Wikimedia Commons, Henderson_Family_Day_Arm_2007.jpg, CC-BY-2.0 I’ve been saying this for over 35 years, since the first time my teacher made us all participate in Show and Tell. I hated...
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9 Reasons Why Cats Are an Introvert’s Perfect Pet
Lavinius and Ezra. Photo: Jenny Bristol I’m an introvert. I also love cats. Cats are my favorite type of pet. And I’ve had plenty. Dogs, cats, dwarf hamsters, rats, snakes, bunnies, and even a...
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Students Shouldn’t Have to Speak in Front of the Class
Image: Wikimedia Commons, Henderson_Family_Day_Arm_2007.jpg, CC-BY-2.0 I’ve been saying this for over 35 years, since the first time my teacher made us all participate in Show and Tell. I hated...
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New Year Resolution vs. New Year Mantra
New Year resolutions. Flickr user chrish_99, CC BY 2.0 It’s that time of the year when people everywhere are looking down at their love handles and solemnly vow to get fit in the year to come. I’ve...
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Stack Overflow: Lessons on Friendship
“Extrovert, Meet Introvert.” Photo by Flickr user fuzzyblue, used under Creative Commons License. Something I’ve noticed over the years is that a lot of kids’ stories share a pretty consistent message...
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An Introvert by Any Other Name
Reading Time: 8 minutes As the geek label has become mainstream, unfortunately, so too have many of the descriptors and personality disorders of those who have historically been called geeks or nerds....
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Everything I Needed to Know About Introverts I Learned From the Hulk
Reading Time: 3 minutes“Marvel’s The Avengers” ..Hulk (Mark Ruffalo)..© 2011 MVLFFLLC. TM & © 2011 Marvel. All Rights Reserved. Think fast–does a loud outburst make someone an extrovert? If we use...
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An Introvert’s Guide to Surviving Home Construction
Reading Time: 3 minutesHome repair and construction can cause a lot of headaches. Photo copyright JackF Off and on for the last several months, we’ve been having some construction done on our house....
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An Introvert’s Lessons From the Con: Day One
Reading Time: 4 minutesc. S.W. Sondheimer It may seem counterintuitive for an introvert to be excited about a large, crowded, loud gathering of humans. Perhaps, in some ways, it is but hey, we are, all...
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An Introvert’s Lessons From the Con: Days 2, 3, and 4
Reading Time: 5 minutesc. S.W. SondheimerSee? Will and I found one another. Eventually… Running a bit behind on part two, obviously (which is why I’m also including parts 3 and 4); no matter how hard I...
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