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09/07/2018
Helping My Kids With Homework ...This spring my youngest had trouble with getting all her work done and her grades plummeted immediately following her Bat Mitzvah. We didn't get angry with her, we reassured her she could and would do better and we were there to help her. More >>

Tags: Education, Homework, Parenting, Teaching
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09/07/2018
Making Our House A Home I have been happily married for 12 years and have an 8-year-old daughter. I quit work in the professional world at the beginning of the year because I knew I couldn't have it all... More >>

Tags: Attitude, Job, Parenting, Personal Responsibility, Values
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09/06/2018
The Deal When I was 10 years old and my brother was 13, we were each given twenty dollars a week for an allowance, but there were stipulations attached... More >>

Tags: Attitude, Job, Parenting, Personal Responsibility, Values
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09/06/2018
Building Your Man's Confidence I have been married to a good man for a decade. He's a hard worker. He's a loving dad. He's a great lover, and an even better friend. But he and I were getting into the same fight every other month from the time our first child was born... More >>

Tags: Men's Point of View, Sex, Women's Point of View
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09/05/2018
Take Time to Grow Up First I saw in our local paper last evening a couple, who my kids had grown up knowing, had gotten a divorce. They have two school-age kids who are approx. 8-10 years old... More >>

Tags: Divorce, Marriage
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09/04/2018
The Difficulty Of Being A Full-Time Caregiver I am the Volunteer Coordinator for a hospice organization, and we recently had a patient who worried about his wife and how she would make it after he passed... More >>

Tags: Attitude, Choose Wisely-Treat Kindly, Job, Personal Responsibility, Stress, Values
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09/04/2018
Stuck By Me Through Thick and Thin ...I was overweight all of my childhood and young adult life. I wanted to get married young and have kids young and I knew being heavy that wouldn't happen. So I lost 90 lbs and found myself a husband... More >>

Tags: Eat Less-Move More, Health, Marriage, Weight
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08/31/2018
Building Together 22 years ago, I was engaged to a wonderful man. I had a good education and a lucrative career, and I was only 24 years old. One day I came across your program and listened for several months, when I realized that I could not continue to work once we had children... More >>

Tags: Marriage, Parenting, Personal Responsibility, Stay-at-Home Mom, Values
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08/31/2018
A Different Act of Chivalry We have been married for 29 years and I have never forgotten my love's acts of chivalry when I was pregnant with our second child... More >>

Tags: Behavior, Chivalry, Manners, Motherhood-Fatherhood, Pregnant, Raising Boys to Men, Real men, Social Issues, Values
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08/30/2018
Loneliness, Invisibility and Shame: The Three Damaging Responses to Depression ...It's hard work to accept and work with depression. You're trying to use your mind - the part of you that's not functioning well - to fix itself. It's a bit like trying to run on a broken leg in order for it to heal. But that's what you have to do... More >>

Tags: Attitude, Behavior, Mental Health, Relationships, Values
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