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90How to Stop Enabling a Drug Addict
Although you may have the best intentions and mean well, enabling an addict actually contributes to their addiction. Learn the warning signs of enabling behavior and how to break the toxic cycle.
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83Coping With Your Defiant, Rebellious Teenage Son
Resources and advice for coping with full blow rebellion and defiance during the teen years. Personal account of my experience with my Son.
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80How to Understand the Difference Between Mother’s Tough Love and Mother’s Toxic Love
It’s hard to break away from bad habits, especially bad habits that have been passed down from generation to generation. I find myself saying and doing things to my children that my mother used to say and do to me. Some of these things...
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80Cuckoo children: Are the baby boomers responsible for a generation of adults who refuse to grow up?
Many of us pride ourselves on our parenting skills. But what if we go too far? What if we over-parent our children? What happens then? Does it help our children ... or ruin their lives forever?
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80A Mother's Wisdom
Throughout the ages, mothers have passed their wisdom down from one generation to the next. These are some of the – wise old sayings – my mother passed down to me. Although I vowed, during those rebellious teenage years, never to repeat such stupid things to my kids; I did, I have, and I still do.
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78Flunking Out Of College: Should I Allow My Adult Children Move Back Home?
So has your adult son or daughter flunked out of college? Having been a college student myself that witnessed students partying while I studied hard and and maintained a high GPA and worked a part-time job, I must admit I had very little respect for...
77What is Tough Love in a Relationship?
I've recently found out that "tough love" has got to be the toughest kind of love there is. Tough because it flies against our whole idea of love - being kind, considerate and working together in a joint relationship. Tough love is tough because...
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76When Your Support System Turns On You
This hub is about what happens when your family, who is supposed to be your main support system turns on you and leaves you feeling alone and empty. It is also about how even though it might be necessary at times for parents to give their children a wake-up call or engage in tough love, they need to remember that sometimes their words can hurt and do more damage than good.
75He planned on smoking weed and THEN join the military
When my 19 year old son told me that his plans for the future were to smoke marijuana while in college, and then quit using it before joining the Air Force, I didn’t know where the air in my lungs went. We were at the park. It was a...
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