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Monthly Archives: November 2010
NPR Sibling Segment Estranged Siblings
NPR sibling story #http://www.npr.org/2010/11/25/131590706/siblings-find-support-and-friendship-in-each-other. In the story two siblings are estranged from a difficult childhood and come back together. Did you NOT spend Thanksgiving with your sibling & wonder why ? Find out if you are a “listless” sibling – … Continue reading
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Ten Tips About Succeeding as a Step Grandparent Over The Holidays
Two out of five American families now include a step grandparent. Continue reading
ABC’s Modern Family in NRP Sibling Series
NPR sibling series spotlights ABC’s Modern Family http://www.npr.org/2010/11/24/131564341/a-modern-family-fueled-by-sibling-fodder with an adult sibling relationship between Claire and Mitchell’s, because of the scraped nerves and half healed wounds grown-up siblings tend to carry around from childhood. This Thanksgiving, if you are Cain … Continue reading
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Siblings Sing The Sounds Tracks to Thanksgiving on NPR
NPR is highlighting the sibling relationship all this week to help us face Thanksgiving dinner with our longest deepest relationship http://www.npr.org/2010/11/18/131432931/the-mix-bands-of-brothers-and-sisters .Tune in and you can hear how siblings can be in harmony and create the sound tracks to … Continue reading
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Dress like Betty Draper but have Don Draper Cook the Turkey
We may want to dress like the Mad Men female cast on Thanksgiving , but do not dish up the turkey like Betty Draper with poor daughter Sally doing all the serving. Show your own children fair-play genderwise and don’t … Continue reading
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Is Your Sister Being Mama Grizzly at Thanksgiving ?
Many family rules are silent.- usually no one writes them down, but they get deeply scrawled in indelible ink on our cerebrum. At times hushed codes are a deadly narrative for “I Hate You” stories. Continue reading
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Parents Can Teach Kids Empathy & Avoid Future Wounds
As Atticus said in To Kill a Mockingbird, you never know another human being until you walk in his shoes. Teach siblings how their behavior affects other siblings to avoid catastrophes in the future. Continue reading
Dreading Thanksgiving With Your Sibling?
Invited to your stepmother’s house for turkey day and planning to down several cocktails to endure the meal? Continue reading
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Gen X Parents – Raising Gen Y Kids- Lessons for Sibings
If you Are Generation X parents raising Gen Y siblings , your family models may come from your parents, grandparents -or the little or big screen media. We can tune into reruns on Netflix and use parenting the Walton’s John-Boy … Continue reading
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Late-Life Midlife Siblings at Thanksgiving -Don’t wash the Turkey Down with Zanex and Martinis
Sometimes shockingly, we may acquire unexpected stepsiblings through a parent’s unforeseen late-life marriage. The effects of these late-life unions can be a new rash of stepsiblings, introduced in your middle age. Continue reading
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