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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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The Dress and Social Media
You know what dress we’re talking about – the one that in reality is blue and black but looks white and gold under certain lighting. The question of its color went viral after a photo of it appeared on Tumblr last week. After only two days, Facebook was alive with the controversy and over 11 million tweets had been made arguing about the true shades of the two-tone dress. But the important question isn’t actually what color the dress is. If it were, the scientific explanation for the discrepancy in … Continue reading
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Tagged Facebook, family, friendships, Keywords: internet, linkedin, net, pinterest, relationships, social media, stress, tension, the dress, tweets, Twitter, web, women
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Opening Doors
As you’ve noticed, Facebook can consume enormous amounts of your free time. There are always new posts to consider – status updates about where an acquaintance is having coffee, crazy cat videos, quizzes to help you discover “what you were in your past life,” tons of recommendations for connections with people you may know since you share mutual “friends.” But sometimes a post can get you thinking as one recently did for me. Our publisher, Fuze, included a photo on Facebook that actor Chris Meloni had placed on his page. … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, challenges, creativity, Facebook, Fuze Publishing, Helen Keller, initiative, open doors
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The Cheney Sisters and Family Values
We develop our core values, in part, from the early family scripts that we internalize. As we grow up, it’s through our unique personality, chosen partners and personal life experiences that we continue to weave the tapestry of our sibling bonds. Like the archetypal tale of Rachel and Leah, relationships with sisters can be a mix of love and rivalry, pride and resentment, cooperation and inflexibility. We all know that sibling rivalry is normal. In fact, disagreements between sisters are so common they’re often dismissed as part of growing up. … Continue reading
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Tagged core values, Facebook, Liz Cheney, marriage equality, Mary Cheney, same sex couples, sibling rivalry
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