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Family
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Written by Beth Jacob
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Chasing goats out of the kitchen, looking in every shop in town for a
stick of butter, asking the Touareg man outside my front gate to please
move his camel so I can get my car out of the driveway- it’s all in a
normal day’s work…if you’re an expatriate Mom making a life for her
family Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. And there’s more of us than you
might think! There are moms here who are aid workers, teachers,
researchers, businesswomen and missionaries. There are even a few
SAHMs to round out the group. What we all have in common is a sense of
adventure.
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Family
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Written by Melissa Chapman
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As I pry open the heavy metal door at my daughter’s school, I notice,
she is sitting on a chair by herself, while a gaggle of six-year-olds
are whispering and laughing on the other side of the room. She meets me
outside dragging her worn out backpack, which has lost all but one of
its wheels-one more thing to put on my to-do-list buy her another book
bag-and I look into her glassy eyes and I can tell she has been holding
back tears. I ask her what’s happened, and she launches into a dramatic
rendition of the inherent meanness that girls, even sweet unsuspecting
ones, with flaxen curls and angelic faces can possess. Today’s problem
du jour; her best friend, has taken a new best friend, and being that
two is company and three is a crowd, my daughter has been
unceremoniously dropped from her “in crowd.”
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Family
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Written by KariAnne Wood & Kijsa Housman
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Tiny ladybugs made of fingerprints…a blue giraffe munching grass next
to a red cow…rainbows covered in blue hearts topped off with rays of
sun…each image is a tangible creation of a child’s imagination. These
tiny paintings and doodles of your petite Picasso or miniature Matisse
are sure to bring cheer to even the most mundane of days. And what
better way to brighten your work space, then to incorporate the stacks
of masterpieces produced daily (sometimes even hourly) into your desk
or workstation.
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Family
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Written by Alyson English
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We navigate the slippery slope, from tiny transgressions to major deceptions, always with hope that we are lying for good reasons.
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Family
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Written by Starshine Roshell
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Do you swear to swear off New Year’s promises that you won’t, can’t or shouldn’t keep?
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Relationships
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Written by American Sociological Association
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 “Married people are better off than unmarried people in terms of health
status, but the gap has narrowed over time,” said lead author Hui Liu,
an assistant professor and sociologist at Michigan State University in
East Lansing.
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Relationships
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Written by Heather Cabot
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 It seems like yesterday we were bickering about which one of us
deserved the privilege of sitting in the front seat of the station
wagon. Whose turn it was to wash the dishes or clean up after the dogs?
Who "borrowed" whose brand new sweater? (lip gloss? curling iron?
shampoo?) Who had a crush on which boy first? Which one is mom and
dad's true favorite?
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