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Step-mother won’t drive 12 and 13-year-old step-daughters to dance class 50 minutes away, painting her as the villain, she wonders if she’s wrong: ‘Their mom’s negativity changed how they treat me’

Family dynamics are always tough, even in the best of circumstances…  Parenting teenagers is difficult enough when they’re your own flesh and blood or they’re otherwise your sole charge and are obligated to follow your direction. It gets infinitely more difficult when you have another adult who is influential in your life—especially one of their […]

Effective Class Delegation

One of the most significant items of the Effective Java book is Item 18: Favor composition over inheritance. To oversimplify its contents: Inheritance is a popular way to reuse code, by extending a class that has the functionality you need. However, it’s also very error prone. It violates encapsulation, because the subclass depends on the […]