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How to Teach Your Kid to Marry the Right Person
When I was a girl, my parents taught me to play tennis, to ski, to ride a bike and drive a car. What they never taught me: how to have a healthy romantic relationship. They gave other feedback freely – validation of my love of reading and black raspberry ice cream, and fair punishment when…
The Grave Importance of Saying Positive Things To Your Kids
This says something about me, and life via social media today overall, that as an alleged “parenting expert” (I can hear my three teenaged kids snickering in the background), I get some awfully fantastic parenting advice via strangers on FaceBook. Case in point: on Friday, March 4, which coincidentally marked the 19th anniversary of the…
Parents & Worry: Too Much of A Bad Thing
Parenting often feels unbelievably weighty - the smallest decisions loom as the most significant and permanent ones we've ever made – making it natural for us parents to worry excessively about all the wrong things. But natural doesn’t mean good. When my kids were little, I read books to determine what exact age was the…
How To Improve Communication in Your Relationship
Men are from Mars, women are from Venus – or so they say. Many social scientists, bloggers, and authors today still take the stand that men and women are inherently different due to simple gender differences, which influence how they interact with each other on a daily basis.
Is it Healthier to be Busy or Bored?
How many of you feel like you are so busy that you can barely make it through the rest of the week or month? Of course this time of year doesn’t help, but generally speaking, are you someone who is busy or someone who tends to be bored? By nature, I am someone who tends to be on the go all the time. I have many projects going on at once, and I get anxious when I don’t keep busy. I am realizing this is not a totally bad thing.