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Our Story Begins: The Extreme Guide to Parenting
(Photo – Bravo’s Extreme Guide to Parenting Season One) Our Story Begins: The Extreme Guide to Parenting We’ve had extreme dieting, extreme eating, extreme exercise, you name it, we’ll make it bigger,...
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Our Story Begins: Embracing Imperfection
Our Story Begins: Embracing Imperfection I got a crash course in imperfection this week. It was, after all, back-to-school week. I have two boys – twins – and they are starting their first year of...
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Our Story Begins: It’s A Parenting Relationship
Our Story Begins: It’s a Parenting Relationship I got one of the greatest compliments in years last night. It wasn’t about my clothes or my weight or how I held myself. It wasn’t from a colleague or...
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Our Story Begins: Practicing What You Preach
Our Story Begins: Practicing What You Preach Last week, as I was about to drop my oldest daughter off for her second year of college, I wrote here about pushing her to choose her own path…tell her own...
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Our Story Begins: The Naked Truth About Racy Photos
Our Story Begins: The Naked Truth About Racy Photos By now you may have heard (or perhaps seen) the latest scandal involving nude photos of certain celebrities. There’s been tremendous outrage and...
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Our Story Begins: Reflecting On A Letter To My Past
Dave’s Younger Self: photo by Photographer in the Family Our Story Begins: Reflecting On A Letter to My Past As the fall grows closer, contributor Dave Manoucheri looks at his past, and writes a letter...
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Our Story Begins: What Have YOU Learned from Your Kids?
Our Story Begins: What Have YOU Learned from Your Kids? I think we all tend to lead different lives depending on where we are in life. That’s not to say our personality changes completely and we go...
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Our Story Begins: Answers To Life’s Grueling Questions
Our Story Begins: Answers to Life’s Grueling Questions Ahhh . . . solo parenting. As the challenges increase, the questions never stop. So just for you, dear reader, let me answer some basic...
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Our Story Begins: Losing a Parent
Our Story Begins: Losing a Parent Mortality. Nothing makes us face the fact that we’re essentially dying from the moment we take our first breath like losing one of those people who gave us life. Most...
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Our Story Begins: Taking the Advice of Your Kids
Our Story Begins: Taking the Advice of Your Kids How often do you listen to what your kids tell you to do? I don’t mean “we need to buy this movie” or “we should go to Disneyland” or any of the...
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Our Story Begins: Stop Trying for Perfection!
Our Story Begins: Stop Trying for Perfection! I had a phone conversation during my day job yesterday with a parent whose story just left me exhausted . . . and I was sitting at a desk not moving. I...
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Our Story Begins: Facing Kids’ Fears
Ebola photo courtesy CDC/public Domain Our Story Begins: Facing Kids’ Fears The news this last couple weeks has been filled with a cornucopia of material that could make a sane person shudder in...
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Our Story Begins: You CAN Cook at Home!
Our Story Begins: You CAN Cook at Home! I grew up having breakfast every morning and dinner at night both cooked by one of my parents, usually my mother. It was a method for parenting I took as the...
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Our Story Begins: A Repairing Relationship
Our Story Begins: A Repairing Relationship Years ago, I had a colleague who had a problem with her car. Her boyfriend at the time – to paraphrase her words – had no idea what to do. I, on the other...
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Our Story Begins: The Default Parent
Our Story Begins: The Default Parent There’s a phrase that’s started floating around recently that I hadn’t heard before. “…the default parent.” The definition of this phrase is, essentially, that...
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Our Story Begins: Books for Young Adults
Our Story Begins: Books for Young Adults Books are a must in my household. I still, as a matter of fact, have all the old children’s books on a shelf in my boys’ room. I read How the Grinch Stole...
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Our Story Begins: When the “Single” in Single Dad Sinks In
Our Story Begins: When the “Single” in Single Dad Sinks In “Dad can just get a dog.” That was the final determination, as far as my son was concerned, ending a debate among the three children in my...
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Our Story Begins: When Black Friday Comes
Our Story Begins: When Black Friday Comes What do you do when Black Friday Comes? I’m like a lot of people in the media. When the day comes I’ll be working. I have to be honest with you . . . I’d...
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Our Story Begins: The Dichotomy of the Single Parent
Our Story Begins: The Dichotomy of the Single Parent People talk a lot about the idea of being a single parent. The sole authority, singular gender, solitary parental unit, is without a doubt the...
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Our Story Begins: Read Aloud To Your Kids
Our Story Begins: Read Aloud To Your Kids “I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a...
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