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Family Values

Impossible Decisions: Choosing Between the Job We Need and the Family We Love

MotherWoman | Posted 05.22.2013 | Impact
MotherWoman

By Jennifer Shiao Page Last year, I made a career change and I'm now working for the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. But prior to that I had an...

Ritual One for a Healthier and More Sustainable Life

Merel Bakker | Posted 05.13.2013 | Healthy Living
Merel Bakker

I truly believe that in our hearts we want to be healthy, and we want our planet to live on for future generations, but reality shows that it's not that simple to achieve.

Grits and Polenta: Keeping Our Families Close

Molly Alexander Darden | Posted 04.18.2013 | Good News
Molly Alexander Darden

I'm glad I've renewed my relationship with my generation's cousins, and look forward to meeting the next two generations at Grey's memorial service later this week. We just never know when we'll be saying either, 'I wish we had been closer when we could.'

Brian S. Brown -- A Crusader Spreading Unhappiness Around the World

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 03.26.2013 | Politics
Judge H. Lee Sarokin

The New York Times describes Brian S. Brown as "the nation's leading opponent of same-sex marriage," who is spreading his message around the world.

Are Your Kids Riding the En-tidal-ment Wave? Part 2

Beth Kobliner | Posted 05.12.2013 | Impact
Beth Kobliner

We all know that there-are-kids-starving-in-fill-in-the-blank isn't really effective when trying to get your kids to finish their dinner. Same is true with volunteer work.

A Witness To Testimony

Daphne Daly | Posted 04.30.2013 | Religion
Daphne Daly

We need to stop pretending the past didn't happen and start sharing our stories, openly and honestly with each other. Honesty breeds trust and trust leads the brokenhearted to Christ.

Is Gay Marriage Really a Conservative Cause?

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 04.30.2013 | Politics
Nathaniel Frank

It's true that conservatives ought to embrace same-sex marriage, and their recent support has been hugely helpful. But it's one thing to say same-sex marriage is consistent with conservative values, and quite another to claim it as a conservative cause.

Are Your Kids Riding the En-tidal-ment Wave? Part 1

Beth Kobliner | Posted 04.24.2013 | Business
Beth Kobliner

As a parent, you're not alone if you find yourself in shock and awe over all the stuff your kids possess. I mean seriously, would you ever have imagined having that much when you were a kid?

Why You Should Save for College

Sharon Greenthal | Posted 04.23.2013 | Parents
Sharon Greenthal

Encourage your children to go to college. If you can, save a little -- or a lot -- to help them with the financial burden that being a student brings. Make sure they know that you value a college degree from early on.

Duck Dynasty and Our Future

Jeffrey P. Colin | Posted 04.03.2013 | Entertainment
Jeffrey P. Colin

If Duck Dynasty is meant to simply present an ordinary group of simple country people who are living life as they might every day, it clearly is not in line with reality.

Taking Down the Christmas Tree... With Elvis and My Kids

Douglas LaBier | Posted 03.09.2013 | Parents
Douglas LaBier

From my children's earliest years, on through my divorce and years as a single parent, we would gather together for a small party to decorate the tree. We'd join again to take it down on New Year's Day, sort of like bookends to the holiday season; a transition into the new calendar year.

America's Values Cliff More Troubling Than the Fiscal Cliff

Stuart Muszynski | Posted 02.26.2013 | Business
Stuart Muszynski

Long before the financial meltdown of 2008, there was a values meltdown in the United States. Most people could sense this but by the time it caught up with us, it was too late.

Project December: Take Back the Holidays

Terra Trevor | Posted 12.11.2012 | Impact
Terra Trevor

This is what I want to claim as a mother, for the time I give to be remembered. That is why I now wrap it, and not objects, and give my time as a gift to my family.

Filibusted

Alex Palombo | Posted 02.06.2013 | Politics
Alex Palombo

Mitch McConnell's self-filibuster is just one example of a party unwilling to move forward, one that would rather shoot down its own ideas and shoot itself in the collective foot than compromise

A Great Thanksgiving

Laurence Leamer | Posted 01.21.2013 | Miami
Laurence Leamer

Sitting here in Florida, I am having a great Thanksgiving because I have a great deal about which to be thankful.

Every Child Deserves a Trophy... Really?

Kelly Trotter King | Posted 01.01.2013 | Parents
Kelly Trotter King

When did lying to a child in order to foster confidence become more important than teaching him coping skills and how to accept weakness or manage failure? When did babying a child become more imperative than teaching her the lesson that not all kids are winners all the time and in every arena?

Nothing to Fear

Grown And Flown | Posted 12.23.2012 | Parents
Grown And Flown

The danger, the real danger, was never in food or movies or video games, and it was not in the people they would meet online.

Slurping Kitten Teaches Kids About Forgiveness

Linda K. Wertheimer | Posted 12.22.2012 | Parents
Linda K. Wertheimer

This year, my son learned more than he ever has about what it means to seek forgiveness after he does something wrong.

What Home Exchange Taught My Daughter

Shelley Miller | Posted 11.24.2012 | Parents
Shelley Miller

Last month my daughter, Michele, left our home in San Diego for jolly ole' Oxford, England where she'll participate in a semester abroad program for the next three months. I was a wreck.

The Best Places in the World to Have a Child!

Ilan Dar-Nimrod | Posted 11.13.2012 | Parents
Ilan Dar-Nimrod

It is ironic that the individuals who champion family values and cry it from mountain tops left and right (mostly right) are the ones that are conspicuously absent when it comes to providing families with such an important provision as a decent parental leave.

President Obama, Immigrant Families Need More Than Deferrals

Mallika Dutt | Posted 10.23.2012 | Politics
Mallika Dutt

These aspiring citizens strengthen our economy, enrich our culture, and share our values. And yet deportations remain at an all-time high, leaving the mothers of some of our best and brightest unsure if they'll even be back to pick them up at school at the end of the day.

Squawking Points: The War on Women Goes Stupid

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 10.17.2012 | Politics
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

It's not so much the right-wingers' war on women that pisses me off -- it's the fact that they think we're dumb enough to buy their talking points.

The Dodgeball Test

Lee Woodruff | Posted 10.14.2012 | Fifty
Lee Woodruff

By trying to be our kids 'buddies' and shying away from boundaries, too often we let the little things slide. And that means we pass up lots of small but precious opportunities to teach good old-fashioned citizenship and manners.

3 Things To Tell Your Children After Tragedy

Claire McCarthy, M.D. | Posted 07.20.2012 | Parents
Claire McCarthy, M.D.

The Talk isn't a one-shot deal -- it's an ongoing conversation that you work into daily life in small ways.

To the Harvard Law Class of 2012 and Overachieving Graduates Everywhere

Ron Davis | Posted 07.29.2012 | College
Ron Davis

Hard work can be satisfying and success feels good. But I urge you to pursue a harder goal than the many mountains you will certainly summit. Accomplishments matter, but are nothing without love, morality, family, belonging and intimacy.