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We all love our children. Some of us go overboard and adore them. Is there harm in that?
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Oh the woes others reap when we fail to crack down on our children’s laundry upbringing.
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Mother’s and Father’s days may be Hallmark moments, but it’s still moving when we hear from our grown kids.
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If you’ve got a 27-year-old in your life, here’s how their work, study and love lives measure up against their peers.
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What makes for a great visit to grown children who live far away? Independence: the ability to get out and around without your children as your constant guide.
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Ah the guilt when a daughter-in-law is frustrated by your son’s messy ways–and you know you’re to blame.
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We all procrastinate but emerging adults–aka our unemployed college grads–may have a worse case of it.
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Communication with our grown children is important but that doesn’t mean we have to share every anxiety and woe over our own lot or their’s.
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Friends are visiting. We haven't seen them in years. The two husbands grew up in the same New York neighborhood. We wives became friends as young marrieds. Then they moved north to Vermont; we moved south and we would see them once a year when we headed for the Green Mountains for a summer vacation.…
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