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By Deborah Mitchell Months after Rick’s father died, Rick’s wife Cathy began to worry about her husband. “Rick has never cried or talked about his father’s death,” she says. “Now he spends all of his free time working on an old ’58 Chevy he and his dad had bought right before he died. I’m worried […]

The way we talk – and the words we use- say a lot about what we think and value. When we use positive adoption language, we day that adoption is a way to build a family just as birth is.  Both are important, but one is not more important than the other. Choose the following, […]

As graduation season approaches and ceremonies roll by, many of us find ourselves the proud parents of truly exceptional children. But, recent studies have found that we don’t always do a good job of communicating that feeling.  That’s unfortunate because when kids know their parents are proud of them the result is usually a much […]