Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. As a kid, I remember reading an issue of MAD magazine with a feature on ...

Every experience, good or bad, carries two gifts: a lesson and wisdom. Yet most of us rush past both. We get stuck replaying what went wrong instead of asking what we can learn from the situation. I ...

Source: Carl Pickhardt Ph. D. After other communication and correction have been unconvincing, parents may sometimes choose to use an object lesson to teach what repeated words have failed to convey ...