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How to give your kids the gift of mindfulness

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The essence of mindfulness is learning to be where we actually are. By Beverly Conyers

November 16, 2022 Family

Twenty years after my mother’s death, I still can’t make her breakfast casserole

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Food was a big part of my grief process. I was 25 when my mom died. By Natalie Serianni

March 15, 2021 Parenting Challenges

Why I don’t want to tell my 14-year-old the truth about Santa

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With an IQ of 70, I don’t think he has the capacity for figuring it out on his own. By Laurie Foos

December 23, 2020 Parenting Challenges

Why Christmas cookies are bittersweet to my brother and me

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In our small town everyone talked about everyone else’s business, but no one talked to us about why our mom was sick. 
By Elizabeth Creaswick

December 21, 2020 Parenting Challenges

Winter is the best time for reading, especially now

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Here are some great ideas for how parents can help encourage their kids to read. By Lisseth Aizpurua

December 16, 2020 Books, Culture, Parenting Advice

The holidays are here, but my mother is not

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I order turkey, I plan to bake pies. The tears make my head pound but they will not fall. By Brianne DeRosa

December 16, 2020 Parenting Challenges

When Jewish kids think they are missing out on Christmas

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Our children have a thorough understanding of their culture. And yet, and yet the magic of Christmas beckons them. By Alla Umanskiy

December 15, 2020 Parenting Challenges

Making toffee at the holidays with the woman I never knew

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As I open my fifth holiday season as a single woman and a mother of three, I watch the butter and sugar vanish into one another again. By Samantha Shanley

December 10, 2020 Family

Learning to make my mother’s holiday cookies again

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I ignored her recipe for many years as a way to avoid the loss. By Marcia Kester Doyle

December 12, 2019 Parenting Challenges

The Santa myth is hard work and I won’t miss it

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As much as I love Christmas, without Santa I felt only glee and relief at the massive reduction in my December workload. By Michelle Deininger

December 4, 2019 Culture, Family

How I spent the first Thanksgiving after my divorce

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My sister had asked me to bake. “Keep her busy” was the secret code among my family members that season. By Nancy Payne-Hambrose

November 19, 2018 Parenting Challenges

When a house is no longer home to the grown children

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Home is where I raised them, watched them grow and then take flight. Maybe that’s why every time they leave now, it’s a reminder of when they left for good. By Morgan Baker

January 28, 2018 Family
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