Tag: children
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Of Daughters, Actions and Self-Awareness…
“[D]aughters can model a great deal from a mother who is self-aware herself,” says Juanita Johnson in, Know Thyself First (Part 6 of Our Mothers, Ourselves: Mother-Daughter Relationships) A storyteller and psychotherapist, who, along with her 27-year-old-daughter gives talks and workshops on the mother-daughter relationship, Johnson adds, “…I observe quite frequently that [a] mother knows…
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Of Health, Well-Being and A Mother’s Love…
A new study, Mother’s Love Can Prevent Illness in Middle Age, at Brandeis University now suggests that, “…a mother’s love expressed each day keeps the doctor way, most particularly in mid-life.” When examining children from poverty-stricken situations, researchers learned, and not too surprisingly, that these children grow up to become adults who suffer from numerous…
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Of Actions, Integrity and Trusting Our Choices…
In stating, “…mothers and daughters cannot serve as best friends to the other…,” Linda Perlman Gordon and Susan Morris Shaffer add in an excerpt from Too Close for Comfort: Questioning the Intimacy of Today’s New Mother-Daughter Relationship , that the …basic question… a mother must answer is: “…Do you trust your daughter to be an…
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Of Breaths, Challenges and Handing Over the Reins…
“…[M]others and daughters can have a close bond, but should never take it to the level of being best friends…” say Susan Morris Shaffer and Linda Perlman Gordon, co-authors of Too Close for Comfort: Questioning the Intimacy of Today’s New Mother-Daughter Relationship. “A best friend is different than a mother-daughter relationship,” says Shaffer in her…
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Of Mothers, Daughters, and The Honesty of Time…
To work or not to work? This is the question that plagues mothers across the world, particularly within Western societies. The concern many mothers express is, “Am I hurting my child by returning to work or by working?” Many studies performed in America conclude, regarding this question, that mothers do not harm our children by…
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Protected: Of Parents, The Nativity and The Need for Caution….
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.