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Friendship Matters

I’ve been thinking a lot about the meaning of friendship lately. What does it mean to be a good friend? How can you know for sure that someone will be a good friend to you? Do we all measure friendship by the same standards? How can we teach our kids to be good friends? The …

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Losing Steam

Why is it so hard to stick with something? This could apply to almost anything but I am referring to ways to get my girls to behave better. I have tried many things with my daughters. I usually start a reward chart when I am at my wits end. My girls tend to fight with …

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Highly Sensitive or Overly Labeled

There’s a new pop psychology term getting some play in a major glossy magazine.  Well, it’s not exactly new, but when Marie Claire writes a story about it you know that people are talking.  “Highly Sensitive Personality” (HSP) was first coined in the early ‘90’s by Elaine Aron, Ph.D, a clinical psychologist in San Francisco, …

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A different kind of date night

Before my husband and I were married I remember what our dates were like.  creative commons Flickr attributed to RetroRoger1 Great restaurants, movies, and fun activities were the norm. We tried to be clever in our dates and had so much fun getting to know each other. After we were married there were a lot …

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