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PROCLAMATION FOR RESPECT FOR PARENTS DAY Whereas self-trust is a necessary quality for parents who raise and guide children, and "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he" Respect for Parents Day will reinforce the worth of parents to themselves and to the citizens of our country; and Whereas the qualities of competence, worthiness and belongingness empower...

As if my husband didn’t have enough reason to kill me, recently I have come into an inheritance. It wasn’t a quit-your-job-and-travel-the-world-size inheritance, but it was enough to turn us into the kind of middle-class family that can actually do some of the things all those toothy financial advisors prescribe to the masses. Before the inheritance, our family of four (me, hubby, and two...

Perhaps it was because Christmas is rapidly approaching. Whatever the reason, I shed a few tears today. They were neither tears of physical pain nor tears of joy. Rather they were tears of sorrow, tears of loss and for what will never be again. The tears came as I reread my musing about my Mom and also recalled my musing about my Dad. They were tears for what once was but are gone forever....

To quote from the classic Christmas Carol, “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”…only, it’s not. Not for many teens. For many, the beginning of each school year is a time of anxiety, stress, and fear. There are many potential obstacles that teenagers face as they enter the halls of learning. Will they be socially accepted? Will they make the team? Will I sit alone at...

Seriously, let’s talk. That wasn’t just meant to be a catchy title. It is time that we, as parents, start talking to our teenagers about their struggles with pornography. This problem is not going away; if anything, it will become more and more prevalent as the avenues for teenagers to view porn continue to expand. Teens are able to view porn through so many mediums that it is almost...

There is a strange occurrence in the parent / child relationship whe the parent begins to act more like the child and the child (now an adult) begins to act more like the parent. This can happen at almost any age, even when the child is still a child, but it most definitely happens as the parent ages. As the adult child, you eventually find yourself reversing roles with your parent and suddenly...

In talking to a few friends around my age, the subject turned to possessions, specifically our possessions. Having broken through the glass ceiling of seventy, you might correctly guess that a few of the items we own are rather old. More so, some of our possessions were given to us by our parents which adds a couple of decades to the age of those items. You might call them antiques...