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Top 10 Training Techniques to Improve Dog Behavior

Dog training can create a better life for dogs. Is your family new to a dog's presence, or is its training the source of the problem?  Either way, this is the reach of the top 10 dog training techniques that can be tailored from the basics to the pros.  The tricks are reliable. If you…

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Breaking Difficult News To Your Kids Over The Holidays

Holidays with family are supposed to be joyous, right? Especially the ones we’re heading into right now. Well, like so many parenting myths, not always. Our parental instinct is to protect kids from bad news, at the holidays and at all times. But sometimes, it’s better to teach our kids how to handle challenging news.…

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Show-Stopping Red Velvet Cake Recipe

Do you have recipes that you clipped from a newspaper or magazine, put away in your recipe box and then forgotten for 10+ years? Well, this is one of those recipes. I cut out this Red Velvet Cake from the Houston Chronicle, “Hints from Heloise,” in 1998. I made it back then, loved it and saved it. Now the clipping is that iconic old newspaper shade of yellow. This recipe has moved from house to house, state to state. Here is the Sugar Mommas version based on that old recipe. Red Velvet Cake Ingredients