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How Well Do You Bond With Your Teenaged Child?

Banging of doors, loud music blaring out from behind shut doors, sullen silences, indifferently muttered monosyllabic answers to queries… Is this what’s happening on the home front daily?
Is this pretty much what happens in households where teens stay? Is it the norm? Is this typical teenage behaviour?
Without generalizing, I would like to say that, yes, [...]

Holidays: Stress-Busters OR Stress-Builders?

                                                           No. I am just not looking forward to them. The holidays. It may mean a lot of things to a lot of people but to me it means work and more work.
Yes, I’m not being a good sport about it but no, I don’t want to be. Weren’t holidays meant to be relaxed and [...]

Predators On The Internet

  I  drummed my fingers restlessly on the steering wheel. We were stuck in a traffic jam and had been so for the past half an hour. I glanced at my friend sitting next to me. She was getting impatient too and kept glancing at her watch. But a little more [...]

What’s your Pet Guilt?

 
What’s your pet guilt? Do we all have one?
Maybe some acknowledged ones, maybe some tucked away in some corner of our subconscious mind ( which we don’t particularly want to air) and maybe some not so bad that we don’t mind talking about.
I can tell you mine. I had an uncle whom I had [...]

Friends and Family: How to keep in touch

 

You have absolutely no reason to lose touch with friends and family. No excuses like “sorry, buddy, didn’t know your address or number” etc. It’s all available if you only know how and where to look.
And moms like me can actually keep track of their children’s whereabouts, even half way around the world [...]