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Talking to Your Kids About Terror
Outrage. Fear. Confusion. Judgment. All of these emotions are swelling in and around us. And they all may entirely justifiable.
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Put On Your Own Oxygen Mask First
For today’s Daily Pause, check out this 4-minute video answer to one of the questions you guys sent in last week.
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Couples Need to Disagree
When it comes to such critical areas as parenting, finances, or how to deal with extended families, we are all tempted to believe a very damaging lie: If we are to be truly “one,” then we cannot be divided by disagreement.
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Humbled but Hopeful
We at ScreamFree were humbled yesterday by the incredible response to our Daily Pause invite for your summer questions. Humbled by the number of your responses, because there are so many folks who look to us for daily practical peace, and humbled by the nature of your questions, because there are so many of you really hurting, and searching.
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Are you friends with your kids?
There’s a very common parenting axiom thrown around these days. In an effort to reverse the trend towards over-involvement in our kids’lives, we parents will proudly proclaim that “Kids need us to be their parents, not their friends.”
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Don’t take your kids on vacation
Hopefully, you’re in the planning stages of this summer’s time off and time away. Whether you call it “going on holiday” or “taking a vacation,” I hope you’re able to get away for a while. If so, here’s all I ask: Don’t take your kids. I know, I know. The “family vacation” is a rite of passage for almost every family during almost every summer.
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Unhappy Families are All the Same
I’ve been working with families since I was 20 years old. The one definite thing I’ve learned is that Tolstoy was wrong. In his famous opening line to Anna Karenina, he claimed that “All happy families are the same,” while “every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” I’ve learned that the truth is exactly the opposite.
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Happy Growing
“Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It’s growth — mental, financial, you name it.” (Harold Geneen) Positive psychology has been a booming business lately. Scores of new “paths to happiness” have filled our bookshelves and newsfeeds. The ones worth examining, however, are usually not the most popular. Why? Because just like the […]
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Be Your Own Happiness
“If your happiness depends on you children being happy, that makes them your hostages. Be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.” (Byron Katie) Parents often base our own sense of happiness on external circumstances. We find ourselves dependent on […]
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Ask the Expert: Is Marriage Worth It?
Q: “Honestly, I’m not sure how to ask what I want to ask here. I look around and all my friends are doing everything they can to get married. But I also look around and see all these married people doing everything they can to get divorced. It sometimes seems like marriage is some kind […]