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Review: Switch On Your Brain by Caroline Leaf

As a physicist, the first chapter I turned to in this book was “Thinking, God, and the Quantum Physics Brain”.  It was astoundingly bad, full of inaccuracies, misunderstandings, and downright errors, and a perfect example of why scientists had better be humble when discussing a field that is not their own. Neuropsychology is not my […]

Review: Hot Buttons: Bullying Edition by Nicole O’ Dell

Some issues are so sensitive, controversial, confusing, and potentially life-changing that youth culture expert Nicole O’Dell calls them Hot Button topics.  She has written a series of Hot Buttons books that I desperately wish I’d had years ago.  A few days ago I reviewed Hot Buttons: Image and today I’m privileged to tell you about […]

Review: Hot Buttons: Image Edition by Nicole O’ Dell

Some issues are so sensitive, controversial, confusing, and potentially life-changing that youth culture expert Nicole O’Dell calls them Hot Button topics. She has written the Hot Buttons books to help parents talk to their teens about hot button issues like image and many more.  How I wish I had had these books years ago! Image is an important […]

Review: Decisive by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Teens and young adults have some major decisions to make, life-altering and eternally-important decisions about faith, college, career, and marriage.  How can we encourage them to make appropriate choices?  Obviously we discuss the contents of their decisions with them; that’s part of being a parent.  However, now that the book Decisive has been published, young […]

Review: The Dance by Walsh and Smalley

After 27 years of marriage, Marilyn Anderson is tired of trying to get through to her husband Jim.  Convinced he does not love her, she leaves home to sort out her thoughts and to live a few dreams. When Jim arrives home and finds Marilyn gone, he is stunned.  A successful businessman, he is sure […]