Tag Archives: family
5 Mistakes Stepfamilies Make
There’s something hilarious about the phrase “blended family.” As though you can throw two sets of hostile people in the blender and serve them poolside with fruit kebabs and little paper umbrellas.
I’m something of a maven on this subject, having had two stepfathers, two stepmothers, three step siblings, and one stepchild over...
3 Secrets Of Couples Who Stay In Love Forever
One thing we’ve discovered about love, relationship, marriage and how to stay in love is … a great relationship DOES NOT happen by accident. In fact, it’s true about not only your relationship, but everything in life.
Take couples who “fall in love” and “stay in love” for example … what we’ve found is that “falling in love” and...
Financial Planning for Empty-Nest Boomers
It’s a day of mixed emotions for boomer parents: The moving van is pulling out of the driveway and the house is quieter than it has been in years; they’ve been looking forward to this moment and dreading it all at the same time. But they have succeeded, they raised their children to be self-sufficient and able to move out of the home, whether...
What’s Wrong With The Teenage Mind?
“What was he thinking?” It’s the familiar cry of bewildered parents trying to understand why their teenagers act the way they do.
How does the boy who can thoughtfully explain the reasons never to drink and drive end up in a drunken crash? Why does the girl who knows all about birth control find herself pregnant by a boy she doesn’t...
Child Homelessness Reportedly Climbed 33 Percent In Past 3 Years
One in 45 children in the USA — 1.6 million children — were living on the street, in homeless shelters or motels, or doubled up with other families last year, according to the National Center on Family Homelessness.
The numbers represent a 33% increase from 2007, when there were 1.2 million homeless children, according to a report the center is...
Is Homesteading Just a Hobby?
From the home-preserved bean of Green Bean.
It has been a busy fall. A race against winter to get the garlic in, lay down the sheet mulch and plant the last of the cover crop.
Not everyone I know, though, feels so under-the-gun these last few months. You mean you can host a play date? You went to a yoga class or to work while the kids were are...
Why Boundaries Play an Integral Role In Your Relationship
In a failing relationship, boundaries enable you to run a bad situation through your thought process and come up with a viable solution that will keep your emotional well-being intact. Boundaries will enable you to apply the correct formula for dealing with conflict. Boundaries will also prevent you from handing out free passes to men who constantly...
Babies, T-shirts and Narcissism
Have you spent any time recently looking at baby clothes? I went out shopping with my wife not long ago looking for a baby gift, and I ended up wandering off into the novelty t-shirt section.
Here is a sampling of what I found:
- “So What If I’m Spoiled Rotten”
- “I May Be Small, But I’m The Boss”
- “Yes,...
Green Travel: Treehouse hotels are unique, eco-friendly vacation destinations
Traveling green is the new way to go. Taking your hybrid or electric car across the country to star at an eco-friendly resort in the Continental United States can be a fun vacation for all ages. But what about those special times when you and your mate want to spend the night someplace really wild and out of the ordinary? Consider renting a luxury tree...
Bono: The F Word
I’ve been known to drop the occasional expletive, but the most offensive F word to me is not the one that goes f***. It’s F***** — the famine happening in Somalia.
Drought, violence and political instability have invited in the grim reaper on a scale we have not seen in 20 years… more than 30,000 children have died in just three...
