Category: Children, family, and relationships

  • Negotiating your way through homeschooling and virtual learning

    As the school year approaches and COVID-19 drags on, many of us find ourselves faced with two potentially challenging options for educating our children: homeschooling or supervising their virtual learning (with the latter potentially resembling the former). Since neither permits a focal parent to do much else, both are likely to prove difficult. Since renegotiating…

  • Negotiating your way through upheaval

    We live in an age of upheaval—political, social, and viral. So, I thought it might be useful to ponder the possibility that times of great upheaval call for great negotiation skills. Indeed, in unsettling times like these, negotiation is often the only way to make life negotiable. Consider the following five reasons why upheaval and…

  • Ok, so you want to barter—but how?

    My last post sought convince you that now—in the midst of the COVID crisis—is precisely the time to barter. In brief, the point was that many people now have little choice but to barter, that barter is a better way of negotiating with family and friends, and that barter can help us both deal with…