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HB 796 Modernize/Nutrition Practice Act – Another Perspective

Pros and Cons of Taking Your Toddler to Great Wolf Lodge

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Earlier this week, our family visited Great Wolf Lodge  (GWL) in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. We had heard such great things about it, we just had to see what it was all about, so we planned an end-of-the-summer trip to visit. Overall, we had a great time and will most definitely visit again (it reminded us a lot of a Mohegan Sun for kids), but there were a few things that we wished we had known before our vacation, so I wanted to share them on CNC just in case you are debating a trip to GWL with your toddler. Just a heads up: While this post is not sponsored by Great Wolf Lodge, our family received a discounted media rate for our overnight accommodations. And, as always, all opinions are my own. PROS Great Wolf Lodge makes travel really easy and convenient for families.  I could seriously go on and on about how easy and convenient GWL made things for our family. Everything from 15-minute parking and luggage carts right by the front door to resort bracelets that also acted as room

The Dangers of People Pleasing in the Modern World (and What to Do about It)

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“Be Selfish.” It’s without a doubt the habit of Highly Successful Hunter-Gatherers I’ve gotten the most feedback on throughout the last few years. (You can check out the other nine if you’re curious or want a refresher.) The reason, I think, is that it’s so unexpectedly radical, so brashly subversive to an almost universally held tenet: good people serve others rather than themselves.You can file it under the “better to give than receive” ethic and the general cult of self-sacrifice that permeates Western moral and work culture. We’re supposed to want to help others, to devote our lives to the service of the greater good. To be selfish is to be shallow, vapid—a flimsy, one-dimensional model of what it means to be human. But as modestly proposed in  The Primal Connection , we’re working here with an unfortunate distortion that can quickly wade into treacherous, life-sucking waters. To adapt an old proverb, I’d say the road to personal hell is often paved with the well-intentioned pur