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Alpha daughter has a bum knee. I overhear her father's long-distance phone conversation with her about the problem. Her doctor is advising surgery to fix the moving part that's irritating the other moving parts. Then to my surprise I hear Paterfamilias say, "I can fly up there to help out if you need surgery." It…
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The name Mom or Dad is loaded. It's what our children called us when they were small and what they continue to call us–or some variation of that name. So it can create a little ball of hurt to hear a son call his mother-in-law Mom or hear a daughter call her father-in-law, Dad. For…
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When our children first leave home–for college, on their first steps toward finding a career–we realize the parenting isn't over. We may not be in control, but we're a very active guidance system, back-up and safety net. We're there to encourage, share the wisdom of our experience and, if we can, lend money to get…
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Let us now praise our college grads. Grown ups at last. Let's not minimize their accomplishment. They may have had their wild moments on campus, but they've made it through at least four years of academic rigor, learned something and matured. Some of us want–and can afford–to reward that accomplishment with a gift that will…
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One of the more wonderful moments in grandparenting is being part of something you taught your children to do and see it pass on to those grown children’s children.
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Miss Manners would approve: Courteous behavior, especially when living in close quarters with grown children, contributes to the quality of family life.
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Our grown children face a fear we didn’t: having their children’s names and photos exposed on the Internet.
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