Family Design – Conversation

October 22, 2009
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We used to eat dinner with the TV on.  After I spent so much time traveling, however, I realized I wanted to connect with my family over dinner.  The 20th rerun of my favorite episode of NCIS wasn’t as important as hearing my Son or Daughter telling me about their day, or watching [...]

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Raising Kids to be Adults

October 19, 2009
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I wish I had a dollar every time I wondered if I am too hard on my kids. Yet, when I look around, I see so many wussy adults who never grew up, are largely self-centered, and who never left home. I don’t want my kids to be like that, so I do [...]

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Silly Songs…Eeew!

October 16, 2009
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Son and I had just dropped Daughter off at school.  In the morning I like to make my kids laugh, so I started to sing something silly.
“I wish I was an Oscar Myer Weiner…” I started, rather loudly and off-key.
“Ewww! That’s gross!”
“What do you mean?  You like hot dogs!”
“But Oscar [the Grouch] likes [...]

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Money, Money, Money…Allowance?

October 15, 2009
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Last night we discussed money around the dinner table.  More specifically, we talked about setting up a weekly allowance for each of our children.  Daughter is seven and Son is 4.  Up until recently, what they got for Christmas and birthdays covered what they wanted at the toy store throughout the year.  Unfortunately, [...]

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Breaking Family Habits

October 14, 2009
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Every male member on one side of my family has died before the age of 60.  There are lots of reasons, but mostly they didn’t take care of themselves and didn’t listen to anything any doctor had to say.
My dad has made huge strides in breaking this trend.  He’s had multiple stints, bypass [...]

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