Weekly Psyche

All human beings need an economy. We live on an economy: paychecks, salary, stock market. Speeding tickets is a cost response in which we are punished by the courts, even garnishing our wages. economy works for all. I have parents give me a call and say a certain child, age 14 or 17, refuses to get off their technology whether its an iPhone, iPod, or their laptop because they’re playing a specific game they’re in engaged in because its now midnight and school starts the next morning. Or even willing to get into aggressive physical confrontation, and many parents aren’t willing to move into that level.

There is also a law of human veyre that says, if an economy is implemented and peers will do things for their peers that they will not do for others, then perhaps those avenues need to be addressed when looking at human behavior change. So a parent calls me up at 11 o’clock at night and says my child says that they’re not getting off the computer. And I text the child letting him know that we have an agreement, that they will relinquish their technology at a certain time. That I will send over five college freshman to discuss the situation with him and to render his technology for five days, since I have to pay them 50 dollars and he knows, the child, that it costs 10 dollars a day to pawn his equipment. He relinquished his computer because he was in an economy and he knew he had to respond to his peers.

The way the human being works and if he does it long enough then he’ll reap the rewards. This is called self-esteem. Self-esteem comes from doing the right things long enough until we know they feel good. I didn’t build the equations, they were here when the earth was built; when I was born. I can only share them with you whether working with children, adolescents, or even the elderly. Well, this is Weekly Dr. B saying, We are not alone.