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Lori Borgman: Cooking up a surprise dish

Parents / Mom's Advice /

Years ago, a bona fide gourmet cook showed me how she passed off store-bought bread as homemade by sprinkling a little sifted flour on top.

From that day forward, I was always suspicious of her offerings at large gatherings, although I greatly admired her ability to economize time and energy.

Not long after, my mother tried to pull a fast one ...Read more

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Ex-etiquette: Thanksgiving dilemma

Parents / Family Living /

Q. I wish I could say I look forward to the holidays, but now that my kids’ mother and I have split up, it just seems impossible. Thanksgiving is the worst. We used to live in the same neighborhood, therefore alternating just Thanksgiving Day worked. But their mom recently moved to the next town. The kids hate sitting in the car. I hate ...Read more

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Given 3 years to live at birth, heart defect survivor is now a nurse and mom

Parents / Mom's Advice /

A few days after Mindy Beyer was born, doctors delivered crushing news to her parents: You'll be lucky if your baby lives until age 3.

Mindy was born with a variety of heart problems. Her ventricles were reversed and there was a hole between them, making it difficult for her heart to efficiently pump blood.

At 1 month old, Mindy underwent ...Read more

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Hours after a massive stroke, 39-year-old was talking and moving

Parents / Mom's Advice /

For a week or so, Ashley Lunardini felt an intermittent pain in her neck. She also had a dull headache that wouldn't go away. She'd had neck pain before, but headaches were rare.

Overall, she was in excellent health. At 39, she went to Pilates class three times a week, walked every day and ate healthy meals.

She went to see her primary care ...Read more

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Must-read royal tales every fan of 'The Crown' should devour

Parents / Mom's Advice /

Writers have often turned to the royal family for inspiration, but in recent years it has been fiction, rather than factual biographies, that have grown in popularity.

And the royals are not only inspiring writers in book form. From the BBC series, "Victoria," based on the book by Daisy Goodwin about the life of young Queen Victoria, to the ...Read more

Helping Kids Find Activities They Love

Parents / Focus on the Family /

Q: My wife and I are committed to helping our kids explore their natural talents in sports, music, and other areas as they grow up. But every time we try something new, the kids seem to hate it. I'm perplexed -- what's the secret?

Jim: The first question to ask is a powerful one: "Who's more interested in this activity -- my child, or me?"

I'...Read more

A Short List of Things I Never Want to Hear About Again

Parents / Georgia Garvey /

Now that the 2024 presidential election has come to its inevitable if protracted conclusion, can we turn the page? Donald Trump won so we won't have to sit through years of conspiracy theories about how Democrats have been training tiny monkeys to live in the ballot scanners and reject all Trump votes, but there are plenty of other matters I'd...Read more

How Parenting Got So Intense

Parents / Lenore Skenazy /

You can't find a better explanation of the rise of helicopter parenting and how, when and why that morphed into "intensive parenting" than this New York Times podcast from a few weeks ago, inspired by the surgeon general's report on parental burnout.

Michael Barbaro, host of "The Daily," interviews Claire Cain Miller, a Times reporter (and the ...Read more

Nevada: What will it mean for CCSD board if 2 former Moms for Liberty members are elected?

Parents / Mom's Advice /

LAS VEGAS — On Wednesday morning, Clark County School Board Trustee Linda Cavazos received a call from a mother of a gender diverse student. She expressed that she was so frightened by election results that she was considering pulling her child out of the Clark County School District.

Two school board candidates with ties to parental rights ...Read more

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Family guide to new movie releases

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'HERETIC'

Rated R for some bloody violence.

What it’s about: Two young Mormon women end up at the home of a man they believe they can convert, and find a trap waiting for them.

The kid attractor factor: None for this philosophical horror flick.

Good lessons/bad lessons: You can do everything right and a man still might be determined to ...Read more

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Ex-etiquette: No place for violence

Parents / Family Living /

Q. I read your column, and I find it fascinating that you think that people who have volatile backgrounds can get along. My ex was a very violent person. We all had the bruises to prove it. I finally left three years ago and didn’t look back. They never see the kids, and to think I should reach out for the sake of the children is outside of my...Read more

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Lori Borgman: Constant requests for reviews rate one star

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Does anyone remember when you made a purchase, went to a doctor or took your car in for a repair and weren't asked for a review? We are in the throes of review mania.

I recently visited a new dentist. Two hours after I left his office, a text arrived asking for a review. I hesitated. What if I inadvertently posted something he took the wrong ...Read more

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A surprising eye-opener on the fight against breast cancer

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The purpose of Juliana Hastings’ book, "I’ll Have a Double: What Every Woman Needs to Know About Alcohol and Breast Cancer" is to raise awareness and share what she has learned during her own breast cancer journey.

While this book is a memoir of Juliana’s experience, it is also a guide for patients. She offers a wide array of helpful tips...Read more

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A guide to finding harmony and hope in everyday life

Parents / Mom's Advice /

“Would you like a ticket or would you like to talk?”

Vincent Dodd, from decades as a nurse helping terminally ill patients and their families and then as a law enforcement officer, knows that solutions to crises are often found well below the surface.

So his tendency, and the visual unusuality, to invite conversation rather than issue a ...Read more

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The heart's 'always working.' She is, too, in studying it to help children

Parents / Mom's Advice /

Paula Nieto-Morales recalls the puzzled looks on her parents' faces when she told them she wanted to become a neonatologist. She was 5 years old.

"I was so little! And they asked, 'Where did you learn that word?'" said Nieto-Morales, who was born and raised in Colombia.

She likely picked it up while watching television, mostly nature and ...Read more

Children Benefit From Parents Whose Values Align

Parents / Focus on the Family /

Q: My husband and I are classic examples of "opposites attract." We deeply love each other even though we hold different spiritual and social beliefs. We're expecting our first child, and we plan on always showing her both our perspectives as she grows so she'll be well-rounded. Do you agree that's the right approach?

Jim: Actually, many ...Read more

I'm Settling Down for an Election Day Nap

Parents / Georgia Garvey /

Wake me when the election is over.

Actually, don't only wait until the election is over, wake me up when the campaign-related complaining, conspiracy theories, insults, protests, riots, bad jokes, lawsuits and death threats are over. Just to make sure, wait until after the votes are certified and the inauguration has safely concluded.

I ...Read more

How to Step Into a New Future

Parents / Lenore Skenazy /

They say the road to success is made by walking. For kids, that is literally true.

Turns out that the more kids walk around, the more upward mobility they enjoy as adults, concluded a study in American Psychologist.

The researchers, led by Shigehiro Oishi, wondered why there are such "large regional differences in upward social mobility." They...Read more

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Family guide to new movie releases

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'HERE'

Rated PG-13 for thematic material, some suggestive material, brief strong language and smoking.

What it’s about: An innovative domestic drama looking at one house and one place from a single point of view over many hundreds of years.

The kid attractor factor: Not much — this is more of an adult drama.

Good lessons/bad lessons: ...Read more

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Lori Borgman: Of mice and men and women and grandmas

Parents / Mom's Advice /

When I was a little girl taking piano lessons, we lived in an old house with a dark, scary basement where mice frequently gathered and hosted parties.

Sometimes, mice ventured upstairs and hid behind the piano. When I began practicing, they would shoot out due to the horrible off-key sounds piercing their teeny, tiny, perfect-pitch sensitive ...Read more

 

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