December 2010 is coming to a close and 2011 will be coming in very soon.
How will you remember 2010? How will you be ready for 2011?
I have not written in the past few months and it seems like time has escaped me. Oops! I will be more diligent in writing my thoughts on how families [...]

Every parent wants their teenager to listen to them. Some of the ways that a parent goes about it produces the opposite affect. The three main ways are: nagging, insight and nagging.
Nagging, for a teen, is the ultimate turn off. Parents do not see it as nagging because parents have a great way to reframe [...]

In the Bucket List with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson, they both have cancer and have about a year to live. They write a list, the Bucket List, of what they want to do/accomplish or really live before they die.
I don’t think you have to wait til you are almost dying to actually live. [...]

You fell in love with the person that makes you very happy and want to be there for you forever. You get married. Marriage is a wonderful thing but it does take work. The “work” part is keeping the marriage strong when circumstances come and shake the marriage.
Protecting a marriage may be difficult if [...]

Anxiety is normal. When you think of speaking in front of people, there’s some anxiety. When you need to take a test, there is anxiety. When we are not sure if a person will like us, there is anxiety. Anxiety can become overwhelming, when the anxiety is more in control of you than you in [...]

Life has it’s ups and downs and there are many things that we can do with an experience in our life. What do you choose to do with it? Do you learn from the experience or regret it?
We don’t always make the best choices and yes, hindsight is 20/20. We can also learn how [...]

The way you think of any situation determines the way that situation will affect you. When you think of something as negative or problematic, you will fee negative about it. When you see something positive, as an opportunity, as a blessing in disguise, as something that will ultimately be for your good, then you will [...]

Everyone has a voice that they listen to.  I am not saying we are all crazy, but we do have an unconscious voice that we listen to that tell us we can do something, we can’t do something, we are stupid, what we should or should not feel at a moment and what we are [...]

This is a funny thought, but I was wondering about it as I was walking my dogs this morning as I do every morning. Let’s see:
Dogs:  need to be fed, bathed, learn how to potty in the right places, love to play in the dirt, crouch when they know they are in trouble and are [...]

Laughter is the best medicine! It relieves: stress, anxiety, depression, gets a person to focus away from their problems and helps them to feel good! It is said that children laugh about 20 times or more a day and adults laugh only about 9 times!! WOW!!! So,, let the kid inside come out and Play, [...]