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Married women all over America are reading the details of Tim Russert's tragic heart attack with dread. "It could have been my husband," we are all thinking. Who among married women of a certain age doesn't have a husband with an extra tire around his wais ... Read more...
When training anyone to learn a new task, whether it is an employee or your child, you have to be ready to reward for a job well done and offer more training and support when the job is not done correctly. So what do you do when potty training your son and he pees o ... Read more...
My youngest son, who will be four years old in August, has shown no interest in potty training or doing anything that a four year old should know how to do. He explains that he does not want to be a big boy, he wants to stay little. Usually I apply lessons learned a ... Read more...
In many houses like mine, the "High School Musical" movie is a HUGE hit. I think this is why my son got his first yearbook ever and just could not wait to show me. I picked him up from school and he was talking nonstop, eager to show me his picture an ... Read more...
This past weekend, my husband attended church in uniform. We sing in the choir. I was amazed at the outright disrespect and cluelessness of its members. One person kept asking which parade he was going to march in, one waved the flag and marched, and he said he hear ... Read more...
I can’t imagine I will ever get to the point in my life where everything is done. I’m not talking about the “Life List” - type of  things. I am talking about the day-to-day tasks - with my family, home and business – that I never seem ... Read more...
I feel like a fraud sometimes. When I am at a reading of my book or teaching a writing class for Adult Education, I wonder when someone will reveal me. It is inevitable, isn’t it? You work very hard to be good at whatever you are good at, then doubt yourself e ... Read more...
I think I got the best mothers day gift from my 7 year old. The first page says this (I will spell everything they way he spelled it)   Dear mom, I Love The way you look. I hope you finD a Job. I Love You. I hope  you like the Read more...
I was sitting in a grant writing seminar today, thinking about how far I have come in the past year since I got serious about my business. I now do much more than write novels and articles for print. I have expanded to corporate writing, writing for the web, bl ... Read more...
This comes from the "Just When I Thought I Had Seen It All" file. It is sure to promote a discussion, one way or the other. Lenore Skenazy is a contributing editor at the New York Sun and founder of FreeRange ... Read more...