http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Kalman+Heller Marriage Kalman Heller Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=386689&ca=Marriage Eric had just been promoted to Vice President of Marketing. It had been an important goal and much sacrifice was involved. Yet, he immediately began experiencing anxiety attacks. In talking about his life, he shared a picture of a marriage that was good in many respects, but lacking intimacy in term... Marriage Kalman Heller Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=341587&ca=Marriage Divorce rates have long been overstated. Recent research indicates that for more educated couples who are over 25 when they marry, the rate of divorce is probably only about 30%. Even for those couples who are less educated or younger when they marry, divorce rates are less than 50%. While data for... Education Kalman Heller Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=341591&ca=Education The value of homework has been questioned before. In fact there have been periods of time during the past 100 years when homework played a minimal role in schooling. Interestingly, homework, which is believed to improve learning and self-discipline, received two of its strongest promotions from a po... Education Kalman Heller Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=316151&ca=Education Fifteen years ago, at the height of the focus on the alleged gender bias against girls in our educational system, I wrote an article for a professional newsletter that argued it was actually the other way around. Boys were at least equally disadvantaged in the classroom, if not more so. The key diff... Marriage Kalman Heller Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=316153&ca=Marriage It is estimated that stepfamilies will be the majority of family types early in the 21st century. This means most families will have the experience of being built from losses and of having a mixture of biologically related and non-biologically related members. It often means serious conflicts from p... Parenting Kalman Heller Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=301950&ca=Parenting Childhood has moved indoors. What a shame. Children are meant to be running free in open spaces, climbing trees, finding frogs and turtles, biking to the playground, and being hard to find at dinnertime. Today’s child is most likely to be found sitting in front of a screen – TV, video games, compute... Marriage Kalman Heller Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=301951&ca=Marriage "When do you think your marriage began to become disconnected?" "When we had our first child." Why does such an exciting event in the lives of a couple so often become a reference point for when their relationship began to diminish? On the surface the answer may seem obvious. A significant amount of... Parenting Kalman Heller Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=275238&ca=Parenting In recent weeks two mothers asked for advice on assisting their children through the impending deaths of a grandparent. The children ranged in age from 3 to 9. This is one of the most difficult issues for parents to deal with because of the combination of our culture's discomfort with death, the fac... Parenting Kalman Heller Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=275241&ca=Parenting Explaining death involves two issues. What is it, literally, and what happens to the person when she dies. The former question is best answered in a simple and honest manner - grandma's heart had grown too weak to enable her to breathe, to see, think, or walk. With young children (below 7 or 8), no... Parenting Kalman Heller Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=239610&ca=Parenting A century or so ago that was a fairly easy question to answer. Children were primarily commodities. The majority of families were farmers and shopkeepers and children were essential for cheap labor. Of course, having children back then was not exactly family planning either! Contraception was a non-...