The Road Rage of Parenting
Molly is my teacher. She is also my daughter. She is a delightful young woman of twenty. We have a mutually nurturing relationship. But it wasn't always this way. When Molly started walking at eleven months, she began pushing my buttons.

Our Children Get the Worst of Us
No one pushes our buttons like our children. No one knows our buttons as intimately as they do. No one can make us soar to our heights or bring us to our knees more quickly than they can. But when we are in a state of anger, hopelessness, or resentment

Going on Automatic
When we snap at behaviors we don't like, say and do things we regret get our buttons pushed-we go on automatic. Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, refers to automatics as emotional hijacking. He describes one's normally rational mind being