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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: 58
Born: 1966
Born: December 5
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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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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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Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too.
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The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don't think anyone with any other weight to carry is going to get to same kind of sympathy - except perhaps people who lose a child.
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It's okay to forgive yourself immediately and for good.
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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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When you are stuck in a group of people who merely trade turns at talking about themselves instead of actually conversing, it could be a matter of their not really knowing how to converse as opposed to being too small-minded or excessively Facebooked.
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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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Waiting for someone to propose to you only passes the Really, it's tradition! sniff test when both of you think it's the man's job to propose and both of you think that's awesome.
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There's nothing like a good family when you're really up a tree.
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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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It's probably good for your body and brain to get moving occasionally.
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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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If the guests want to wrest the check away from the host, because the host is also the guest of honor, then the guest who volunteers has to cover the whole thing. A guest can't volunteer -all- of the guests to pay for the host/honoree.
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Once given, a gift is yours to use, store or dispose of as you see fit.
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You can't make people like you under the best of circumstances, and you certainly can't make them like you while you're actively badgering them on what you perceive to be their failures of conscience.
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Make sure you have legal cover for what you're doing.
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It takes awareness that it's not only not a bad thing to let others do things their own way, it is in fact an improvement. It makes life richer and more interesting.
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Separating is not divorcing. Please keep that in mind. It is, instead, the second step in seeing if there's a better way to manage your family.
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