One of the keys to being happy with your work is having passion for what you do. Featured again Scrubs magazine, Jason shares 4 tips to help nurses reignite their passion for nursing and continue to treat the Adultitis in their lives. He's getting positive feedback and you can read a couple comments below: The last one is my favorite because everyone can get through today and with a little faith, tomorrow will bring a brighter day. Also, I think in nursing the concept of smiling more is truly contagious and can make anyone’s day a little brighter, including your own. --By Ladonna M., LPN on September 29, 2009 at 1:03 pm Oh dear. Just took the Adultitis Intake Quiz. I’ve developed Stage 1!! Time to find a pile of leaves and jump in! STAT! --By Paris Lia on October 1, 2009 at 12:12 pm Check out the entire article for all four tips and see how they can help YOU ignite your passion! …
Adultitis Care for Nursing Professionals
Nurses have a tough job. It's understandably stressful to care for the wide range of patients who cross their paths as well as deal with the bureaucracy of the world of medicine. Like many care-giver professionals, these amazing people are susceptible to Adultitis. Jason wrote a helpful article in Scrubs magazine outlining ways for nurses to treat the Adultitis in their lives. Be curious. It’s important to keep a childlike curiosity burning within you. The best nurses are the most curious ones. You may have heard the saying “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Asking your patient thoughtful questions—and not just the ones like “Does it hurt when I do this?”—is a great way to communicate caring. I’m not saying you have to put on a Barbara Walters special, especially when you have a heavy patient load. But sprinkling in a few curiosity-inspired questions (Who’s your hero? When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? What was …
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News of Adultitis Around the Net
Adultitis is being dealt a blow by the attention popping up on the Internet. The more folks know about this debilitating disease the sooner we can successfully begin treating the worst cases. Here are some blogs and news articles that feature the fight against this epidemic: Diagnosis is the first step to beginning your fight against Adultitis. Little Miss Deb made the discovery and some interesting observations on her blog. Some Cranky Guy joined the fight by encouraging folks to check out our "interesting site" and linking from his blog. Radio host Jen Mattison shines some "lite" on the definition of Adultitis. Jason was interviewed by Madison's Isthmus about podcasting: Madison podcasts that follow in this tradition vary widely in their themes. In one, Kim and Jason, available at kimandjason.com, a local married couple offer motivational "recipes" for fending off "adultitis." It's a term they use to define grownups who have lost all sense of childlike curiosity …
Old School Love for New Tee
Our "Old School" Hopscotch T-Shirt is getting lots of love. First this schoolyard classic was top of the Daytee voting two weeks ago, and now it receives some bloglove from a cool t-shirt-loving blogger, Coty Gonzales. I'll confess I was never a huge hopscotchist (hopscotchianado? hopscotcher?). Maybe it the gravel driveway we had growing up or maybe it was my clumsiness that doomed me to skinned knees with all that hopping about, either way I certainly don't have the fond memories Coty has of hopscotching in Hawaii: I have to admit, in elementary school I had some mad Hopscotch skills. I remember this popular recess time game being very intricate and competitive. It was much more than just hopping from square to square. There were certain levels that required you to start by launching from a certain start distance and let’s not forget the difficult “washing machine” level that required you to spin 360 degrees block to block. Thanks for the sharing your story Coty! Keep up …
Sweet Lemondrop Against Sour Adultitis
Another blog is joining the crusade to help folks Escape Adulthood. Lemondrop is helping spread the word about Adultitis with their interview of Kim & Jason. Here's an excerpt: Obviously, the pair's not advocating skipping out on your duties. But they think that we all might be a bit happier fulfilling them if we can recapture some of the wonder we had about life as children. And there's a difference, the couple says, between approaching life in a childlike way versus a childish way. "Now, if we are to take a childlike look at the current state of the economy, instead of dwelling on the fear and loathing, we should open our eyes to the opportunities," Jason said. "Perhaps a door has closed in your life. Not fun. But are you missing the windows that are opening up in front of you because you're too preoccupied looking back at what you lost?" Read the entire interview here. Thanks for the sweet post Lauren! …
Escaping Adulthood with the New Escapologist
Kim & Jason were interviewed by Robert Wringham, a humourist, performer, and editor of the New Escapologist. They answered questions about escaping adulthood and the Escape Plan Challenge. You can read the whole blog post here. I've pulled a couple of the questions I liked below: NE: You’ve interpreted maturity as an illness. What makes you see it as one? K&J: Maturity is not necessarily an illness, but taking yourself too seriously can be a problem. We like to differentiate the differences between being childish and childlike. We don’t think people should start paying their bills with Monopoly money and mucking around with Play-Doh all day. But we think getting back to a more childlike attitude is important. NE: We always seem to be running from something or to something. We want to quit our jobs; we want to quit this city. No one seems happy with where they are these days. Why do you think people are so bent on escape? K&J: People look for meaning in life. They …
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360 Degree Shout-Out
Tim at 360 Degree Self did a nice post about our fight against Adultitis. He submitted a great comment for Jason's post about The Importance of Family Dinner that was read on EA Show #23. Thanks for the nice write-up Tim. We're always happy when folks find a resource for escaping adulthood! …
Be In The Know
One last tidbit to share with you from my interview with Jason from last week: Don't forget to follow us on Twitter or become a Kim & Jason Facebook fan. All the cool kids are doing it. There are lots of fun ideas and insight on the kimandjason Twitter feed. Start following today to get little Adultitis fighting tweets. Kim and Jason mentioned Facebook in this week's episode of the Escape Adulthood Show. There are often great extras on our Kim & Jason page including Lucy photos and Lemonade Stand info. Become a fan and get some inside information. …
Design Details Interview with Jason
After the final tweaks had been finished, I got a chance to ask webmaster Jason a few questions about the new design for KimandJason.com. How many times has the Kim & Jason website been redesigned? Oy. Lots and lots of times. I'm sure a visit to the Wayback Machine would uncover about a dozen or so versions. Our business has changed a lot over the years which requires a constant evolution. Also technology has made quite a few advancements as well. For instance, our blog started out as a simple thread called "Bird Droppings" in a bulletin board forum. Once blogs were officially invented, we launched one on Typepad and them moved over to Wordpress, which I love so much I'd want to marry it. (Too bad, Wordpress, I'm taken.) Now, pretty much our entire site is built in Wordpress, which didn't even exist when we started out. Crazy. Was there anything in particular that inspired part or all of the new look? …
Young At Heart Grandparenting Tip
Grandparents.com asked popular mom bloggers what they really think about grandparents roles. Kim was one of the contributors to the article, "What Moms REALLY Think of YOU!" Check out Tip #21 for her words of advice for young at heart fun with the grandkids. …