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Jami Dellifield

To Wait or Not to Wait?

Do you ever find yourself waiting until the last possible minute to complete a task that needs done?  Do you find yourself inviting people over for a party so that you have a reason to clean?  Do you find it hard to say “no”? Do you have too many things on your “to do” list? […]

WRITTEN BY: Jami Dellifield, Family and Consumer Sciences Educator, Ohio State Extension, Hardin County

REVIEWED BY: Cheryl Barber Spires, Program Specialist, Ohio State University Extension, Northwest Region

PHOTO CREDITS:

  • https://pixabay.com/en/business-career-depressed-employee-19156/

SOURCES:

  • http://www.columbia.edu/itc/gs/study/readings/PROCRAS.htm
  • http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/procrastinate
  • https://www.princeton.edu/mcgraw/library/for-students/avoiding-procrastination/procrastination.pdf
  • http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/procrastination/
  • http://sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl/procrastination.html

REFERENCES:

  • Burka, Jane B. and Lenora M. Yuen. Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About It. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publ. Co., 2008, 1983. https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8yU9nhq8C0C&lpg=PR7&ots=GGF-VGoO1y&dq=Procrastination%2C%20authors%20Burka%20%26%20Yuen&lr&pg=PR6#v=onepage&q=Procrastination,%20authors%20Burka%20&%20Yuen&f=false

Living with Loss

Part of our humanity is living with loss.  We experience life and we live with loss.  Loss brings out the best and the worst in each of us.  Children and adults cope with loss differently.  When we or someone we love is grieving, we have the potential to alienate others or to draw closer to […]

WRITTEN BY: Jami Dellifield, Family and Consumer Sciences Educator, Ohio State Extension, Hardin County

REVIEWED BY: Katherine A. Homonai, Family and Consumer Sciences Educator, Ohio State Extension,

PHOTO CREDITS:

  • https://pixabay.com/en/loving-memory-memorial-grief-1207568/
  • https://pixabay.com/en/children-walking-road-distant-1149671/

SOURCES:

  • https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2009/November/feature1.htm http://www.foh.hhs.gov/NYCU/copingtips.pdf
  • http://www.foh.hhs.gov/NYCU/copingtips.pdf

REFERENCES:

  • http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/advanced-cancer/caregivers/planning/bereavement-pdq#section/_11
  • http://articles.extension.org/pages/59556/ways-child-care-providers-can-help-children-deal-with-grief-and-loss

Holding on to Hurt?

Have you ever been hurt by someone?  Have you ever hurt someone? Forgiveness is a difficult topic to write about.  Whether we are the person who has been wronged or we are the person that has committed a wrong, it hurts because we have invested so much of ourselves into the relationship that has been harmed. […]

WRITTEN BY: Jami Dellifield, Family and Consumer Sciences Educator

REVIEWED BY: Shannon Carter, Extension Educator, Fairfield County, Ohio State University Extension

PHOTO CREDITS:

  • https://pixabay.com/en/hands-holding-embracing-loving-718562/

SOURCES:

  • http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-health/in-depth/forgiveness/art-20047692
  • http://relationshiprx.utk.edu/2013/06/10/betrayal-and-the-3-rs-of-forgiveness/
  • www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forgive
  • http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/reinholdni121403.html

REFERENCES:

  • Edmondson, Kimberly A., "Forgiveness and Rumination: Their Relationship and Effects on Psychological and Physical Health. " PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 2004. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/2152
  • http://www.extension.umn.edu/family/parents-forever/resources-for-families/yourself/emotional-and-social/importance-of-forgiveness/
  • http://scholar.dominican.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1047&context=senior-theses

Slowing Down When Life Speeds Up

Do you remember Aesop’s fable about the Tortoise and the Hare? In this story, the Hare makes fun of the Tortoise for being slow, so the Tortoise challenges Hare to a race. Tortoise keeps on moving, one foot in front of the other, while Hare lies down to take a nap. In the end, Tortoise […]

WRITTEN BY: Jami Dellifield, Extension Educator, Family And Consumer Sciences

REVIEWED BY: Jamari White, Healthy Relationships Specialist

PHOTO CREDITS:

  • https://pixabay.com/en/road-sign-asphalt-road-sign-90390/

SOURCES:

  • Hsee, C. K., Yang, A. X., & Wang, L. (2010). Idleness Aversion and the Need for Justifiable Busyness. Psychological Science, 21(7), 926-930. Retrieved from http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/06/14/0956797610374738.abstract#cited-by
  • https://bewell.stanford.edu/crazy-busy

REFERENCES:

  • http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/socrates133712.html

Quality or Quantity?

There is no doubt that technology is changing how we interact with others. Statistics show that most Americans spend 11 hours per day using technology. Miriam-Webster defines relationship as “the way in which two or more people talk, behave toward, or are connected to one another”. Relationships thrive because individuals share personal information with one […]

WRITTEN BY: Jami Dellifield, Extension Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences, Hardin County

REVIEWED BY: Jamari White, MSW, LSW, Healthy Relationships Program Specialist

PHOTO CREDITS:

  • https://pixabay.com/

SOURCES:

  • Jiang, Crystal L., Bazarova, Natalie N., & Hancock, Jeffrey T., (2010) The Disclosure– Intimacy Link in Computer-Mediated Communication: An Attributional Extension of the Hyperpersonal Model. Human Communication Research, ISSN 0360-3989, 37: 58–77. International Communication Association Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
  • Sutcliffe, A., Dunbar, R., Binder, J. and Arrow, H. (2012), Relationships and the social brain: Integrating psychological and evolutionary perspectives. British Journal of Psychology, 103: 149–168. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8295.2011.02061.x
  • Cummings, J. Butler, B. Kraut, R. (2002), The Quality of Online Social Relationships. Communications of the ACM, 45: 103-108. 0002-0782/02/0700

REFERENCES:

  • https://www.healthychildren.org/English/family-life/family-dynamics/communication-discipline/Pages/Improving-Family-Communications.aspx
  • http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/pdf/Positive_Family_Communication.pdf
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/reading-between-the-headlines/201307/smartphone-addiction
  • http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/social-media-affect-math-dunbar-number-friendships

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