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Bodies and minds need breaks or the work suffers, this has been proven and reproven to the point where we don't even need to post links to support it.

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Carolyn Hax
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: December 5
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Make sure you have legal cover for what you're doing.
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Being highly invested and preoccupied by an emotionally consuming mission tends to steal resources from other aspects of your emotional life.
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When in doubt, respond to what you witness, not what you hear secondhand.
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Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.
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We all make deals with ourselves when it comes to the difficult people in our lives.
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Your job is to be you, which includes being the chief beneficiary of all things you do right, the chief victim of all you do wrong, and the one person on Earth who has to live with every choice you make. As gatekeeper to your life, you’re it.
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The topic of sexual education makes me nuts, because kids are certainly not now and have rarely ever been clueless about what adults do and delude themselves about keeping from their kids. Especially now that so many of them are carrying the entire internet around in their pockets.
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I have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children.
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Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.
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If you take the time to listen to an upset child's story with empathy, and guide the child toward figuring out the root of the problem, then the result is often that the child not only calms down, but also in the future is less likely to get so upset.
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If you're not sure what you want, then hold back from making plans or responding to invitations until you have a chance to think about it.
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Live in the moment, this moment, your moment. That is by far and without meaningful rival The Best Position to put yourself in to discover and delight in who your children turn out to be, whoever they turn out to be.
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Moving is hard. Staying is easy. Logistically speaking, at least. And this is true whether you're doing or undoing something.
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You need to make plans for your future, so plan your own future.
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For some people, the better route for finding like-minded parents is just to get out of your house with your baby and frequent baby-friendly places.
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Apparently you have ample proof from experience that you're not going to stop world evil by debating your in-laws into submission, so it's okay to choose not to try.
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There's nothing like a good family when you're really up a tree.
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I believe in innocence until there's proof of guilt and all that.
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Separation is where you see if it works better with the adults in two different homes.
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You don't want to be with someone who is already not getting from you what he needs emotionally.
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