by Dwayne Phillips Too often, some of us take on the role of caretaker of everyone around us, i.e., we try to e everyone’s dad. Such is folly. Sometimes, people are struggling at work. No problem. I will step in and H E L P them. I will take care of the problems that seem […]
Being Everyone’s Dad
October 26th, 2015 · No Comments
Tags: Adults · Competence · Family · Management
Adults Coloring, Yes Coloring Books
October 22nd, 2015 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips In an attempt to go back to reality, adults are returning to coloring books. Everyone has a smartphone, a tablet, a computer, or all of these. You move the mouse, the cursor moves, and lines and colors and all that appear on the screen. Press control-P and the printer produces the paper […]
Tags: Adults · Authentic · Breathe · Writing
Let Your Friends Test Your Work
October 12th, 2015 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips There are many testing strategies available. There is some benefit to letting close friends do the testing. I don’t advise this in all cases, but sometimes it is good to let your close friends test your work. This can hold for: software writing presentations singing clothing (what I choose to wear) One […]
If We Tell Him, He’ll Get Mad
October 8th, 2015 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips People are free to choose their reactions to events. I am included in “people.” We all are. I don’t know how many times I have heard the phrase that is the title of this post. There are countless variations: You tell him that! That’s easy to say when s/he isn’t around. The […]
Tags: Adults · Breathe · Choose · Communication
The Kids can See
August 3rd, 2015 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Kids today are anxious to move one to something better. That frustrates us old folks. We have a solution, if we choose it. This is one of things that bothers us old people about young adults: They want to move up and move on and do something else (too quickly) They haven’t […]
Tags: Adapting · Adults · Agility
Childhood, Adulthood, and Privacy
July 2nd, 2015 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Too often I hear adult-to-child language used in discussions of adult privacy. If you aren’t doing anything wrong, you shouldn’t care if I’m watching. This is what parents tell small children. I heard it often as a child and I said it often as a parent of then small children. It seems […]
Tags: Adults · Change · Communication