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Childhood -- Loves, Lessons and Losses
Articles on being a child, childhood experiences, lessons learned in childhood.

Being A Caregiver
Articles on the responsibilities of being a caregiver.

Relationships with In-laws
Articles on in-laws -- coping with in-laws and managing your relationship with in-laws.

Marriage -- Its Joys and Problems
Articles on marriage.

Parents and Children
Parents and children share an essential, fundamental relationship. The parent-child relationship is pivotal in life success and development.

About Children
The 'Thanks, but No Thanks' Decision
by Victoria Crosse
It was pretty much blasphemy back when I was young to speak a negative word about parenthood and children. Children were what made a family a family back then. People got married ... not so they could have each other forever and always, but so they could have children and raise a family. Childless couples were not only not common, they were seen as deprived, unfortunate, even tragically bereft.

Basic Steps to Raise Green Kids
by Stephanie Foster
Kids are fun. They get excited about many of the things you can teach them as a parent, especially when they're little. Take the time to get them started on some early green steps to help them learn to respect the environment.

Basic Principles of Green Parenting
by Stephanie Foster
Green living lifestyles - how to teach your kids environmental responsibility.

Secrets of Organized Moms
by Beverly Frank
A mom often wears many hats, taxi driver, cook, housekeeper, bread-winner, shoulder to cry on, and more. So, how does mom juggle it all? The following are six secrets of organized moms to help make things easier.

Stuff I Didn't Need to Worry About
by Annie Fox
Both our daughter and son are grown up and out in the world doing very well, thank you. So I thought it might be fun (in a masochistic kinda way) to revisit some of my biggest worries during their teens years. Why? I'm bored. Not really, but I am creatively dodging some other work at the moment. Also, I decided to take up this exercise to prove to myself what a futile endeavor all that worrying turned out to be.

Help Your Kid Survive Mean Girls Or Guys
by Annie Fox
At some point in your school career, chances are you've had at least one run-in with a kid who seemed determined to make your life miserable. If your son or daughter is currently dealing with one (or more) of these kids here are some positive messages you can offer.

From Baby Boomer to Mother-in-Law
How to Play Your New Role
by Rosemary Lichtman
You have the right stuff to rewrite the rules without becoming the Mother-in-Law from Hell. Instead of fading into the background, you can follow these 6 tips to form a good relationship with your new daughter-in-law.

6 Ways You Sabotage Your Love Relationship
by James LeGrand
You may be pushing your partner out of your life. Your fears, guilt, doubt, past experiences and feelings of unworthiness may drive you to doing and saying terrible things to the one you like or love. Whether you are doing this consciously or unconsciously, you could be pushing away the relationship of a lifetime.

What You Can Learn From President Obama's Mother-in-Law
Now that Michelle Obama's mother is living in the White House, will the cruel jokes and snide remarks about mothers-in-law finally stop? Will Marian Robinson, as first mother-in-law, be able to pave the way for acceptance, even respect, for this much-maligned branch of the family tree? Only time, and the nightly comedians, will tell.

Six Tips For Spending the Holidays With Your In-laws
by Jenna D. Barry
The way I see it, there are two groups of people: those who love the holidays because they love spending time with family, and those who dread the holidays because their family -- or spouse's family -- is difficult to be around. I wrote this article for those of you in the second category.

Relationships
Aim Frustrations In The Right Direction
by Susan Derry
Frustration is prevalent today in our busy, stressful lives. Work is frustrating, traffic is frustrating, parking is frustrating, and relationships are frustrating. Or are we frustrating ourselves? Are we allowing frustration to permeate our lives and our being?

The Secret to Raising Readers
by Emma Walton Hamilton
Raising children who love to read. Ideally, our earliest reading experiences are warm and fuzzy. We snuggle up with loved ones while listening to enchanted tales... Reading = JOY. Then, we go to school. Little by little, our parents stop reading to us, feeling it more important to promote our independent reading skills.

Reading With Kids
by Emma Walton Hamilton
Education and parenting experts agree that reading to and with young children helps them better understand their world and develop important language and learning skills. Most importantly, when parents and children read together, children develop a love of reading that can last a lifetime.

Is Grandma Really a Monster In Law?
by Pinky McKay
It is easy to take offence when you are confronted about your parenting choices, especially when criticism comes from your own mother or mother-in-law. But could you be over-reacting or perhaps just a little oversensitive? Is Grandma really going out of her way to needle you or could she actually be trying to impart some well-meant (although misguided) information?

Home For the Holidays
Family Dynamics and The Art of Compromise
by Kip Parent
Christmas and families. It's time to go home for the holidays. Since going away to college, you come and go as you please. Eat and sleep when you feel like it, and report to no one. Now it's time to get together with old friends, party 'til dawn, and sleep all day. It's the perfect way to let loose before to going back to the college grind, right? Right?

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