Strict Parenting Doesn’t Work

I am a firm believer in proper parenting, and I believe in having rules for your home. But when you go overboard and above and restrict everything for your children, they are going to rebel. Maybe not right away, but they will grow up with resentments so deep, that it will cause future problems with…

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Gossip Hurts. STOP!

Gossip is anything that includes idle chatter or rumors about the personal or private lives of others. Whether or not it’s true, it doesn’t matter. Sharing negative things that you would never say to a person’s face behind their back is such a huge betrayal. I know, we’d all like to think that we would…

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How to be Positive

Do you see the glass as half empty or half full? That is usually a question asked to see if you are an optimist or a pessimist. I’m here to tell you that it doesn’t matter if you are naturally a pessimist, if you tend to lean to the negative side more than the positive…

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It’s so unfair!

When Life is Unfair….throw it down the despair hole. Now, I’m sure you read that, and immediately thought, “What is she talking about?” Let’s face it right off the bat. Life.is.unfair. It will always be unfair. To you, to me, to your family, to your neighbor, to everyone. No-one is exempt from unfairness. It comes…

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Learning the Hard Way

You know, lessons learned the hard way are so incredibly painful, but desperately needed if we are ever going to grow and change.  I’m going to generalize here, and I might be wrong, but I think that most people do NOT like to have their faults pointed out.  First of all, we already what our…

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Why are people so…..!!!

Why are people so _____________!     You fill in the blank.  There are so many words that could be placed there:  silly, stupid, mean, condescending, jealous, irritable, negative, happy, outrageous, dumb, infuriating, pushovers, afraid, crazy…….just to name a few. WHO ARE THE PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE? Now, in thinking up your own words, I’m sure there…

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Un-met Expectations

Guess what! I have figured my marriage out. I was married for just under 10 years, then divorced. I have remarried, and this year will be celebrating my fourteenth year anniversary. Guess what I have learned… The biggest cause of problems in a marriage are UNMET EXPECTATIONS. And upon learning that, I realized I needed…

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Start Being a Duck!

We need to be ducks. For forther information on how to be a duck, keep reading. Ever have someone insult you, or say something really stupid? Now, this is a rhetorical question, because YES, of course ALL of us have had someone say something to us that we consider to be mean or downright rude….

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