Word: nag
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...year-old son was captivated by your article. Thank you for enlightening my child. Now when I nag him for the umpteenth time to take out the garbage, I can see him replying, "Gee, Mom, I just don't have the motivation. It must be my immature nucleus accumbens." SANDY BARTELL Bellevue, Wash...
...Today Gnosticism is the object of renewed interest among scholars, owing largely to the publication of a remarkable library of Gnostic scriptures. Known as the Nag Hammadi Codices, for the town in southern Egypt near the site of their discovery, the library consists of twelve 4th century papyrus books containing texts that are thought to have been translated from the original Greek into Egypt's ancient Coptic language ... The Nag Hammadi texts are already adding new fuel to a long-standing debate over the relationship between Gnosticism and early Christianity. Scholars have long believed that some New Testament passages attack...
What if you have kids who constantly nag you to buy them things...
...love allowances! Unfortunately, only about 50% of families today in the U.S. actively use an allowance. I think that allowances are one of the great secrets in teaching and training young people to have healthy financial habits and boundaries. It's one of the best tools for minimizing the nag factor...
...getting old,'" says University of Southern California sociologist Vern Bengtson. A small event, like superorganized Mom losing her checkbook, may be the trigger. Or the recognition of parental decline may dawn gradually. Some offspring fight off the reality until a crisis hits, while others fret and nag long before their parents need any help. Many folks, Bengston points out, enter old age relatively healthy, still helping their kids with baby-sitting and financial support, but their offspring may overreact to small, normal signs of their parents' aging...