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Confession of a Once-Reluctant Grandmother
It’s the pose that gets me. He looks so old. I can’t even see his face, but I know that’s my first grandson, son of my first born. When I look at that photo, I see pages of the calendar flying into...
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New on The Buzz: Need Help with Your Mother/Daughter-in-law?
Whether you love your mother/daughter-in-law to pieces, or you secretly wish she lived in another country, you’ll get some good pointers from this latest addition to the MotherU Buzz, What’s a...
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Mother to Daughter: I know more than you realize
Over the five years we worked together on our three “Baby Whisperer” books, the late Tracy Hogg and I often marveled at the fact that so many modern mothers had stacks of parenting books on their night...
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L’shana tova–Happy New Year. Even if you’re not Jewish, fall is a reminder of the cycles of life and of milestones. Each new school year is, in fact, a “new” year. You look at your children or...
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What’s In Your Family’s Digital Future?
My daughter signed up my oldest grandson, eight, for his first gmail account. Within a few hours he had figured out how to sign on his little brother, who turned five last June. He already knows how to...
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Consulting Grandma: How to Make the Most of An Often-Wasted Resource
“What do I know?” said a master family therapist in mock self-deprecation, “I’m just the grandmother!” One of her grandchildren had a learning disability, which she–a well-known and respected...
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Knowing When To Keep It to Yourself
My dear 89-year-old Aunt Ruth, a wise woman and an elegant lady if there ever was one, has spent her life attracting people. It’s not just because she’s attractive, which she is, but it’s because she...
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When the Next Generation Comes to Visit
Miami, 2011 With summer around the corner, the prospect of inter-generational house-sharing increases. So journalism professor Mary Quigly, founder of Mothering21–a site about “raising” older children...
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