Help kids develop the tools to manage anxiety, refrain from catastrophic thinking and focus on the positive, and you can help them adjust to major life changes both now and in the future.

Before you pull your hair out, join me in exploring how mothers can regain their sanity and prevent burnout on most days. You can be a great mom without draining yourself completely dry. And, you don’t need super-mom powers to get it all done. You have a choice in regaining your self in each day and in each moment.

What better way to pump up your stress levels than by suffering through unpleasantly hot summer weather? These tips can help you keep your cool, de-stress, and enjoy the summer heat instead of battling it.

When our lives are filled with responsibilities, obligations and commitments, there’s a risk that unless we put a check on the energy we’re expending — emotional, physical and mental — we’ll leave ourselves vulnerable to burnout, stress-related illness and exhaustion.

Sometimes fear prevents us from doing what we know we need to do. But why are we willing to hand over control of our decisions to what is, after all, an emotional response?

If you’re a Mac user looking for a way to help organise your Mail messages using the OpenMeta-style tags we described here recently, you can easily connect Mail under Leopard or Snow Leopard with Ali Rantakari’s free Tagger application.

Sarah Luczaj takes a look at How to Cure Boredom, an upcoming e-book by fellow contributor Evan Hadkins.