4,208 articles on "family"

Family History or Genealogy?

Every now and then I'm asked to do a bit of family history research for another person. Help me with my family tree, they plead. "I have the details of my grandparents and also my great-grandparents and now I would like to get some more added in...

Family  family history
The Sentimental Meaning Of Flowers

The Sentimental Meaning Of Flowers  by: Gina Stathopoulos For me certain types of flowers bring back a flood of memories. I remember in my early teens visiting my best friend who had moved to the country. We would spend hours in the field next t...

Family  family flowers flower time
Awesome Dad's Top Ten Ways To Be The Foundation of Your Family

Awesome Dad's Top Ten Ways To Be The Foundation of Your Family by: Dovid Grossman and Ken Mossman Part of the responsibility of being a father is to establish a strong foundation for the family. Just like a building foundation, much of this...

Parenting  parenting family children love foundation
A Teller Of Tales

ller Of Tales by: Wayne and Tamara Direct Answers - Column for the week of June 10, 2002 I told my daughter I didn't think my daughter-in-law paid enough attention to her oldest son, 8. He has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, is o...

Self Improvement And Motivation  self improvement motivation daughter love family
Developing Your Child's Self -Respect

Self-respect means taking satisfaction in appropriate behavior and hard-won accomplishments. People with self-respect also respect others. They do not need to disparage others or build themselves up by bragging or exaggerating their abilities or tale...

Family  family respect need
REVISITING OUR PRIORITIES

After his haircut, the young man stepped behind my chair and, without saying a word, hugged me. I must say, in all humility, it was a great haircut. It wasn’t the haircut, though, that brought about the hug. It was the result of a bond we had estab...

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Intelligence of cats part-2

Cats can learn dozens of activities. It is not necessary to train a cat to use litter box because mother cats train their kittens to use litter box. Cats can also be trained for using toilet. A kitten can learn to use toilet at the age of just three ...

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How Do I Love Thee

I was recently having a conversation with a client about relationships and we uncovered an interesting fact: Sometimes, the way we need to show love isn't the way that others need to feel love. I'm sure there are many books written on this ...

Family  family love show loved about
Walking with Gratitude

Walking with GratitudeJoyce Moseley PierceDuring this season of gratitude and thanksgiving, I wanted to write about something we do every day with very little thought. Something we’ve been doing since we were very small. Most of us did it before we...

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Teenagers Taking Risks

It can be hard being a parent with a teen going through what I term the 'I'm Invincible’ phase. This is the phase when teens start doing scary and dangerous things (according to us parents) as a way of testing out their physical limits. T...

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