Category Archives: parenting kids
Technology Closes Gap between Parents and Boomerang Kids
It is estimated that one in five adults in their 20s and 30s are living with their parents for one reason or another. If your kids have decided to move home after college or a few years on their own, it can be tough to find common ground and reconnect with them, but it’s not impossible. Use technology to bridge the gap between you and your kids. Here are a few ways to do so: Use social media. Perhaps the most obvious way to use technology to reconnect with … Continue reading
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Tagged Boomerang kids, Facebook, Hilary Smith, living with parents, move home after college, parent-child relationship, social media, technology
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Rio Olympics: Final Five
Our U.S. women’s gymnastics team gave their national coordinator a fitting send off in the final moments before her retirement. In the Rio Olympics, Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Laurie Hernandez, Madison Kocian and Aly Raisman won the team gold. Deciding to call themselves the Final Five was both significant and personal. In tribute to their mentor, they chose this nickname – the final team to train under the watchful eye of Marta Karolyi. Who says that Boomers and Millennials can’t get along? Preparing … Continue reading
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Tagged family support, Final Five, Marta Karolyi's retirement, Millennials, Rio Olympics, role models, team gold
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Healing and Resilience
Tragically, events across America seem to be defining these times as the summer of hate. Divisive rhetoric has spilled over into bloody violence and shootings on all sides during the long weeks. Where are we going as a society with this painful spiral of animosity? Healing, however difficult, can stop the cycle and become a positive response to the pain we feel. When we band together as a nation, we can find common ground and overcome our grief, moving towards peace and reconciliation. We saw such role models last summer … Continue reading
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Tagged bloody violence, building trust, defeat, forgiveness, hate, healing, optimism, parents, reconciliation, resiliency, role models
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Searching For Role Models
In a week like no other in recent memory, we have seen horrendous bloody images daily of devastation and death around the world caused by radical terrorists: the bombing at the Istanbul airport, killing 45 and maiming many more; the stabbing death of an American-Israeli teenager sleeping in her bed in Israel; the cold-blooded shooting and murder of 20 at a restaurant in the capital of Bangladesh; the suicide bombing in a Baghdad marketplace, killing over 200 souls; suicide bombs exploding in attacks at three different cities in Saudi Arabia, … Continue reading
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Tagged candidates, Captain Phillips, Elie Wiesel, family values, female athletes, goals, HerMentorCenter, John Wooden, Olympics, Presidential elections, Pyramid of Success, radical terrorists, raising children, role models, Sully Sullenberger, women's soccer
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