Read Reed Richardson's short essay on the 'C' Words:'Compromise, Challenge, and Center' here.

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.thenation.com/blog/155854/once-every-thousand-years

"Com•pro•mise — n
2. What President Obama actually did to enlist Republican support on every single piece of major legislation, successful or not, from the stimulus, to health care, to cap-and-trade, to financial reform, and most likely will do with the soon-to-be expiring “Bush tax cuts”, but rarely without getting slapped down, rebuffed, or ignored for his efforts by the very party he was trying to coax into governing.

3. What the new GOP majority’s leadership in the House has no intention of seeking with President Obama or the Democratic-majority Senate, a tactic it settled upon nearly two years ago.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. ......Here we go again....

[BrklynLiberal]

2. ...here we go again...

[Igel]

3. My kid tried to come up with a reward for a friend.

He'd heard us talking about rewarding good behavior. His friend did something he really liked, and he wanted to give him something or do something to say "thank you."

My son likes frogs. A frog picture is a great present for my son. My son decided to give his friend a frog picture. His friend thinks the frog obsession is a bit strange; it's a really lousy present for my son's friend.

We had to explain that rewards have to be understood from the perspective of the recipient, that you buy presents that the recipient likes not presents that you personally would like to receive.

In other word, that you have to have a sense of empathy for the other person, a sense of what the other person actually thinks is important.