If you’ve ever found yourself questioning whether your toddler’s latest behavioral masterpiece is normal or cause for concern, you’re not alone. One minute they’re sweetly stacking blocks, the next ...

The old adage, "familiarity breeds contempt," rings eerily true when considering the dangers of normalizing deviance. Coined by sociologist Diane Vaughan, this phenomenon describes the gradual process ...

And yet there are normal people. Perhaps it is easier to say what is not meant by normal than what is. Normal is not average. If someone could be average in every conceivable way, he could still be ...

Because when leaders invoke suffering with contempt and others laugh it off, silence becomes a green light. We are at a crossroads. Either we reject cruelty or we accept that the next generation will ...

With everything changing so rapidly these days, it is not a surprise that we have begun to normalize certain financial behaviors. It is a natural response to accept these behaviors as acceptable, ...

Parents frequently ask me whether their teen’s behavior is “normal,” or whether they need to be concerned. I have come to realize these are two very different questions. We are far better served to ...

But successful societies have recognized that, to be successful, this freakish, perverted element of society must not become too large or influential, or they will disrupt the whole fabric and moral ...