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Best Tips on How to Provide for the Family
Providing Is More Than Putting Food On The Table Enhancing your family life can bring your family members closer together and stop disputes from interfering with the happiness of everyone. Luckily, you can take many concrete measures to make your time with your family more pleasant and satisfying.
By Jade Pulman6 years ago in Families
How Accurate Are Those Home DNA Tests?
Analysing a person's DNA was once a difficult, time-consuming, and expensive task—reserved for the police, and performed in high-tech laboratories. But these days, you can pick up a home paternity test from a discount store for as little as £5 (plus a lab fee of around £100 for processing the samples). But can you really trust a cheap, at-home DNA test?
By Dave Smith6 years ago in Families
When Saturday Is a Wednesday
It was your typical fall Wednesday in late September 2017, except nothing about that day turned out to be ordinary. I woke up convinced it was Saturday, and I was quite annoyed not to find my husband in the kitchen or on our porch with a cup of a coffee. Discovering our dog Wally had used the living room floor for his toilet only made my mood worse.
By Debbie Lewis6 years ago in Families
Failure. Top Story - August 2019.
I had failed, that’s all I could think. I was a failure as a parent, a foster parent and a decent human being. In training, they all but said that if we disrupted it was all our fault because we weren’t trying hard enough. (Disrupted means asking a child to be removed from your home before they are reunified, sent to live with relatives, or moved to their forever home). I had tried so hard, but I just couldn’t take it anymore and this child and our family was suffering because of it.
By Rebecca Bailey6 years ago in Families
Feel Your Emotions
Do you ever feel like you're traveling on a road that has no end in sight? We've all been there. Unfortunately, life doesn't come with a manual. We are all living our own journey. So how is it that some people make it look so simple? Let me let you in on a little secret. Everyone has struggles and misfortunes. Some things we can handle on our own and some things take a village of resources that we have to rely on. The important thing is that we recognize that how we handle these struggles and misfortunes is what determines how we get to the fork in the road that allows us to change the path.
By Jacinda Bulatovich6 years ago in Families
Teaching Your Children Responsibility for Their Belongings
For those with kids, you know all too well how challenging it can be to get them to respect their things. You have witnessed several occasions where they toss an expensive toy into the air or dip their doll’s hair into the mud. In some cases, they may decide to take their toys apart to see how they are made, or maybe they have stopped playing with them all together.
By Damien Justus7 years ago in Families
Raising Kids with Mental and Learning Disorders
When I sat down to write this, I tried to think of the many angles to take. I am bipolar and have ADD and I deal with other issues. When my daughter was diagnosed with extreme anxiety, and my son as high functioning autism and ADHD, I admit I jumped on the pity train and tried to make it all about me. What did I do to make my children not "normal"? Why do my kids have to suffer like me? A slew of other things went through my head, but I finally realized, they are perfectly normal, and so am I.
By Bradley Perry7 years ago in Families
Travels With Toddlers
We recently returned from a 10 day trip with our three year old and nine month old. We survived. Vacationing with small children can seem more like work than play, but we value experiences, and we cherish the joy that our children had on our trip. I can understand why so many people are overcome with anxiety at the though of traveling with small children. If you value travel, like we do, here are three tips we used to make our travel successful.
By Johnny Lambert7 years ago in Families
