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My thoughts, my passion, my adviceProduct size warning – and Giveaway – Vetememes raincoat
NeedAMom ordered this fun raincoat and it just arrived. One size definitely doesn't fit all. BE WARNED. I'm smaller than the woman in this photo. http://www.vetememes.com/product/vetememes The quality is good but it's HUUUGGGE. I look like I'm wearing a Hefty Lawn and...
Money. Adult kids asking for it. Parents giving it. Or not.
MONEY a nuclear topic a topic about guilt and entitlement knowing when to draw the line and where the line is knowing what to ask for and when https://youtu.be/I8P80A8vy9I This will be the first of many posts and discussions about this. It includes kids moving back...
Labels – and Why Gen Y-ers are NOT Millennials
Gen Y grew up with Saved By the Bell. Millennials did not. There's a lot of confusion about Gen Y and Millennials. All too often Gen Y gets erroneously included in the category of Millennials. And it really pisses them off. It should. There are significant...
Weep for the mothers and children and then SPEAK OUT
The murders of two black men and five Dallas police officers have left me with a heavy heart. For one minute take away your hate, your position on guns, your fear, your racism, your politics and feel the grief of mothers and children. Try to really imagine yourself...
The myth of millennial entitlement was created to hide their parents’ mistakes
THE MYTH OF MILLENNIAL ENTITLEMENT WAS CREATED TO HIDE THEIR PARENTS' MISTAKES This is an excellent piece from Sarah Kendzior at qz.com. I urge you to read it. (and so should Hillary and the Donald and the entire US Congress) Among its very perceptive conclusions are:...
Comfort food for the soul: watching television with your adult child
Like the rest of us, millennials watch television to relax, to be distracted and also for reassurance and a sense of ourselves... ...from identifying with The Gilmore Girls, Friends and Broad City......
“Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgement.”
Here's an article from the Washington Post "On Parenting" column that discusses the negative aspects of the 24/7 supervision of children. Lessons from ‘The Goonies,’ and from the loss of unsupervised time for kids...
Alcoholic or Just Young in Brooklyn
I just came across this article by Genna Rivieccio in Brooklyn Magazine. It's a question I get from many of my clients. DO I HAVE A DRINKING PROBLEM? There is A LOT of drinking and partying going on around here and it's easy to slip from social drinking into...
A “Get Out of Jail Free” card for daughters and sons
Relax, You Probably Call Your Mom Enough from Leah Libresco onFiveThirtyEight It doesn’t take sophisticated statistics to prove that you should call your mom on Mother’s Day this Sunday1, but do mothers get their due the rest of the year? To find out, I commissioned a...
What is Mother’s Day?
We celebrate this day as Mother's Day but it is also an acknowledgement of our adult children's separate lives. One of my clients reminded me of this poem from Kahlil Gibran. I share it with you today.
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