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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, [...]

Way To Good Health With The Right Attitude

You stand on the weighing scale - horror of horrors; you find you’ve actually gained a few pounds.
But how did this happen? How can this happen when you’ve been so careful? So vigilant? No, there must be something wrong with the scales. It must be old. It was almost two years old. You [...]

Happiness: ‘Tis A State Of Mind

It’s all in the mind. Think yourself happy and you’re happy. Think yourself unhappy and you’re unhappy. The mind games we play are responsible for our state of mind.
If you’re going to wake up in a depressed or a negative state of mind, well, then you are going to be that way unless you shake [...]

Be Your Own Person

She’d realized she’d hit rock bottom. She knew she had to do something. Luckily for her, I was around to tell her that or she may not have recognized it for ages. She later told me that if it hadn’t been for me, she wouldn’t have been aware of it for the longest time. We [...]

Are You Open To Suggestions?

 

   Her husband was moving. He’d got this lovely job offer from abroad. It was a “to-die-for” assignment. No two ways about it. He was determined to take it. Never mind if he had stay alone. Never mind if he had to cook and fend for himself. Hmm, washing clothes, doing dishes…yes, even then.
He’d been [...]