Everybody gets angry. We all have buttons that push us right over the edge. And everybody has experienced (or has) kids that have temper tantrums. But kids are supposed to outgrow that kind of behavior, right? They learn how to take a breath, take a step back and handle things in a mature and reasonable...Read More

I’m sure every one of you has had an experience with this kind of person – the one who has a sob story every time you turn around. Some of them as adults will go into a bunch of raw deals they got as kids. I got in trouble because this kid did something and...Read More

Have you ever been with or know of know someone who has been with someone who is always has someone or something to gripe about? There’s an old joke about a woman who is so tired of her husband being upset with her all the time she made a Herculean effort one morning to be...Read More

Texas laws on guns have recently changed. In the past, in order to carry a gun, you were required to take a course in order to receive a permit. No permit meant you could not carry a gun with you. Now, however , that requirement has been abolished. So it’s perfectly legal for anyone to...Read More

I get a lot of questions and hypotheticals about the effectiveness of pepper spray. Yes pepper spray can be an effective deterrent against an assailant – if the circumstances are just exactly right. First, it must be in your hand when they happen to strike– you won’t have time to say “excuse me Mr. Bad...Read More

In any scary situation, the faster you act the better. “He who hesitates is lost” so they say. So it’s a great idea to practice repeatedly to prepare ahead of time. You want to be so confident in your performance and and do repetitions so thoroughly that you don’t even need to think that you...Read More

We all have intuition. It’s a universal built in mechanism that has been passed down for thousands maybe millions of years to help keep us safe. If two guys were confronted by a tiger, the one with instincts ran away- to like another day and pass down that DNA trait. The one that didn’t have...Read More

If you’re a person who enjoys a walk to the park, walking your dog, jogging or even walking through your neighborhood to a friends house – you may be making yourself an easy target. This could even happen in a parking lot in the way to or from your car when there is nobody else...Read More

When I was a kid I was taught that under no circumstances was I to open the door if I was home alone and someone knocked. That’s good! But I interpreted that to mean for me to be very quiet so the person would think no one was home – not so good. Many times...Read More

The first reason college bound young adults should take a safety course is because there will be no parents around to help with decision making. 18-year-olds do not have a fully developed cortex – that’s the area of the brain where judgments are made. But, they’re on their own in college with no one to...Read More