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What Are You Teaching Your Teens About Holiday Behavior?

Barbara Greenberg | Posted 02.19.2013 | Parents
Read More: Competition, Holidays, Uncles, Aunts, Alcohol, Christmas, Cousins, Parenting, Grandparents, Rivalry, Jealousy, Teenagers, Holiday Etiquette, Parents-Teens, Parents News
Barbara Greenberg

It starts something like this: You go to a relative's house for the holidays. Soon, the adults start to drink a little, lose their inhibitions and start to regress to their younger selves. You start to tell old stories. Oh no, you have forgotten that your teenage children are in the room.

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The Importance of Aunties and Uncles

Susan Stiffelman | Posted 02.10.2013 | Parents
Read More: Relatives, Parent Coach, Parenting, Susan Stiffelman, Children, Parenting Advice, Ask the Parent Coach, How to Be an Uncle, Social Media, Uncles, Aunts, Advice for Uncles, Advice for Aunts, How to Be an Aunt, Facebook, Parents News
Susan Stiffelman

As my nieces and nephews become teenagers, they seem busy with their own lives. I don't know what to do to get closer, other than friending them on Facebook. Do you think having relationships with their aunts and uncles matters to kids?

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The Big Five-O

Beth Bernstein | Posted 11.10.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Growing Up, Aging Gracefully, Being Happy, Aunts, Mother Daughter Relationships, Nieces, Single Women, Turning 50, Fifty, 50th Birthday, Fifty News
Beth Bernstein

When my mother had a kidney stone, she called me to tell me to get to the hospital first: "Go get a Sharpie at the nurses' station and blacken out my age on the side of the bed," she told me.

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Food: We Can't Live With It, but We Can Live Without It

Mark Steinberg | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Nehi, Condiments, Fat, Mother's Cooking, Obesity, Diet, Pate, Drumstick, Center for Disease Control, Aunts, Recipes, Satire, Sisters, Chicago, Carrots, McDonald's, Bovine, Health Care, Hot Dog, Comedy, Scrambled Eggs, Food Coloring, Taxes, Humor, Revenue, Restaurants, Cooking, Carp, Bachmann, Eggs, Healthy Living News
Mark Steinberg

The problem with Marjorie's scrambled eggs was that they didn't smile like my mom's eggs. They seemed pale, like they'd had a bad night out. They looked like their estimated taxes were due.

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Discovering What Unites Us All

Steven Crandell | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Relationships, Heritage, Writing, Sons, Memoir, Legacy, Parenting, Stories, Wellness, Fathers, The Balanced Life, Family, Uncles, Mothers, Daughters, Aunts, Healthy Living News
Steven Crandell

We are all sons and daughters. This truth unites all people from all parts of the world. Many of us don't think about it, but our identity as a son or a daughter is a gateway.

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A Dirty Mind? Why Yes I Do. It Runs in the Family

Lora Somoza | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Dirty Minds, Aunts, Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 78, Brazilian Bikini Waxes, Victoria's Secret, Sex, Family, Comedy News
Lora Somoza

I tend to be the grossest person in the room. I used to always describe myself as one of the guys...with female parts. I consider it a gift really. But lately, I come to realize it's more than that. It's genetic.

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Thank You

Meredith Lopez | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Daughter, Aunts, Women's History Month, Sisters, Cousins, Mothers, Grandmothers, Nieces, Women's Rights, Relationships, Women's Issues, Family, Parenting, Grandparenting, Healthy Living News
Meredith Lopez

March is (was?) Women's History Month. Now that it's over I would like to get this in just under the wire: a simple tribute to those women who inspired me.

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First Online Community for (Savvy) Aunts Launches

Eric Kuhn | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Family Online, Aunts, Savvy Auntie, Children, Websites, Parenting, Children Gifts, Family, Savvyauntie, Melanie Notkin, SavvyAuntie.Com, Media News, Healthy Living News
Eric Kuhn

SavvyAuntie.com is the first online community for cool aunts, great aunts, godmothers and all women who love kids. It's like a parenting community for non-parents.

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