While parents today tend to coddle and praise their kids for the bare minimum, parents in the 60s and 70s refused to spoil their children in the 11 ways that make kids soft today.

I’m a kid of the ’70s and ’80s. Nobody scheduled my afternoons. I rode my bike until the streetlights came on. I settled my own arguments. I got bored, stayed bored, and eventually invented something ...

Our feelings come from our thoughts. When we first realize the power our thoughts have, we often jump right to the “let’s have happy thoughts” place in our lives. If we only think happy thoughts, then ...