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Convincing a Spouse It s Time to Have Another Child
When that I have to have another baby feeling hits it is difficult to set it aside. It is almost as if there is some unexplainable desire inside many women that tells them exactly when it is time to have a baby. Surprising, even after one, two or even three kids many women still want to have more. Your hormones go into overdrive and you may wait each month that missed period that says your dream has come true. Many women keep this desire secret while others seem happy to share it with a...
Dealing With the Loss of a Pet
Dealing with the loss of a pet is a traumatic experience that can cause a deep and grave sense of loss and grieving for adults and children alike. Although most adults realize that they will long outlive their beloved dog or cat; children do not! Young children, who have pets whether they are a fish, pony, cat, dog or lizard see and feel them as part of the family, part of their life. When they die the rock solid foundation of family is shaken at the roots for a child. Why? Because for most...
Honesty In Marriage
Humans are not particularly honest creatures. We pretend we are, but really in the end, when we pile up all the individual little I didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings lies, we aren't brazenly honest at all. Is this a bad thing? Is being honest with your spouse 100% of the time a really good idea? Aren't there times when we shouldn't spill our guts, not even to our spouse? Or should we pride ourselves on being completely honest all the time no matter what? Unfortunately, honesty isn't as...
Why Parents Should Not Spoil Children
If you've ever watched MTV's reality television series Sweet 16, in which every episode features a different teenager's elaborate party preparations for his or her 16th birthday party, or the more well-known Nanny 911 on Fox, you've probably gotten an eerie look into the lives of America's most obnoxiously spoiled children. Are they the exception to the rule or is your child in danger of growing into a moody adolescent who demands you buy them a $100,000 car for their Sweet 16?
The sad...
Explaining Death To A Child
Death is a very complicated part of life that even adults tend to struggle with. There are questions as they relate to the fairness or unfairness of death, question regarding what might happen to the soul, and questions about our own mortality that adults don't quite understand. Explaining death to a child doesn't mean that you have all the answers, but that you offer them the best comfort you can. Some of the leading experts have a few recommendations. My own recommendation is that you speak...
Getting Divorced Steps to Dissolving a Marriage
Dissolving a marriage is never easy, but understanding the process can certainly help you to feel more informed. The actual degree of complexity of divorce will usually depend upon how much money and property is involved as well as whether there are children from the marriage.
First, it should be understood that there are two types of divorces. They are fault and no-fault. Prior to the 1970s most divorces were granted on a fault basis, with one spouse being found at fault of the failure of the...
Involving Kids in Sports
Whether you have a boy or a girl, chances are there is plenty of athletic activities available right in your own community that caters to their age and skill level. Athletics and sports in general are a supportive part of growing up and help kids set the foundation for socialization, team work and a feeling of pride and accomplishment in themselves. The trick is to start them out with a non-competitive attitude and allow them to develop their own likes and dislikes for activities. Just because...
Deciding to Have a Child
So, you want to have a baby?
There comes an age and time in life when every person coupled or otherwise considers the question of whether or not to have a child. For some people, this is a no-brainer and they know from the time they are very young that children are in their future. For others, it is once that causes distress, concerns and worries because the urge is just not there. And still, for others it becomes an impossibility or an accidental decision. Having a baby is a huge step in life...
Disciplining a Teenager
Well, you cant really spank them anymore, can you? Its a little distressing
disciplining a teenager while you are looking up at them. In fact, most teenage boys can simply pick their mothers up and move them out of their way if they so choose. So how does a parent go about instilling strong life lessons in their teenage children and help them grow into wonderful, fulfilled, and responsible adults?
Discipline and punishment, in my book, are two different things. Punishment is about power,...
Marrying Your Best Friend
In a perfect world, people would marry their best friend who they are also madly and passionately in love with. Of course, we already know that we do not live in a perfect world. In fact, we live in a relatively crazy, upside down world with feet that smells like Fritos. Sometimes we make choices or consider choices that we otherwise wouldn't in order to combat different situations. The temptation of marrying your best friend falls into this category.
Marrying someone whom you love but are...
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