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http://www.bestdatingsites.org/blog/2012/10-signs-of-a-fake-gentleman/ Here’s an article from Best Dating Sites that I was asked to consider mentioning. This one is a great classroom discussion generator and concerns the signs of a “fake gentleman”. Here are the signs—see the original article for more on these signs: He always knows exactly what to say He’s never ruffled or agitated He always has an excuse He’s evasive about his past You’ve caught him in a few lies He’s surgically attached to his cellphone He steers the subject away from commitment You’ve never met his friends He’s a little bit too smooth He assumes that you’ll be available on very short notice Some of these are no doubt accurate as the guests on Maury and the Jerry Springer Show regularly demonstrate.   One problem with lists like this, as I see it, is that it’s often male bashing. I don’t notice a comparable post on the “fake woman”. And, again, if Maury’s and Jerry’s guests are any indication there are fake...

I was asked to participate in a “blog tour” of the book, Changing Behavior: Immediately Transform Your Relationships with Easy to Learn, Proven Communication Skills , by Georgianna Donadio and published by SoulWork Press of Boston. I was asked to do whatever I wished—which is always nice. So, I thought I would simply mention the book and its connection with communication. The book ranges widely in its coverage of various suggestions “to enhance and enrich your own personal relationships”—the book’s overarching aim. Not surprisingly, there’s a great deal that focuses on communication skills (as its subtitle notes). And, again not surprisingly, the skills are similar to those we teach in interpersonal communication—listening, emotional expression, mindfulness, equality, self-awareness and self-assessment (with lots of personal reflection questions), and relationship improvement (as its subtitle also notes). This book is a not a textbook (it’s 8 ½ x 11, 142 pages, and larger type than w...

http://www.babysitting.net/blog/10-ideas-to-help-your-child-become-more-confident/ Here's a neat little list of suggesstions for building confidence in children. As you'll see there is much here on communication, probably the single most important ingredient in any confidence building program.

http://www.becomeananny.com/blog/10-tips-for-children-of-gay-couples-that-get-teased/ Here's a brief list of suggestions for the child who gets teased by other children for having gay parents, probably because they have homophobic parents or teachers. The suggestions are, however, useful for any type of teasing. Interestingly enough, we don't talk about teasing in our communication texts and yet it's an extremely important and often hurtful form of communication.

Most nonverbal communication textbooks talk about time under three main headings: psychological time , referring to one’s orientation to past, present, or future biological time , referring to one’s body rhythms as well as preferences for early or late in the day activities cultural time , referring largely to the differences in the ways different cultures treat time, whether, for example, members do one thing at a time (monochronic cultures) or a variety of things (polychronic cultures) and the social clock, the time one’s culture considers appropriate for certain rites and rituals, for example, completing college, getting married, or moving out of your parents’ house      To these three, I’d like to propose a fourth type of time. Since all of these dimensions refer to interpersonal interactions, interpersonal time seems an appropriate name. As with all aspects of interpersonal communication, interpersonal time will be influenced by our psychology, our biology, a...

http://www.aupair.org/blog/10-easy-things-you-can-do-to-improve-your-memory/ Here's an interesting list of suggestions for improving memory--write it down, repeat, visualize, and create rhymes, for example.

Here's a brief article from the NYTimes which reports on Lynne Kelly's research into narcissism and Facebook use.  According to Kelly's findings, Facebook use is not associated with narcissism. However, those who collect huge numbers of virtual friends do seem to be high on narcissism. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/does-facebook-turn-people-into-narcissists/