Advice on Parenting: Only Love…

My children were young in the nineties.  The wisdom of the day on parenting, via the latest headline, newspaper or magazine article or television talk show suggested that we keep our kids busy. The thought being: “idle hands are the devil’s workshop.”  There were other nuggets of wisdom:  put them in sports, keep them active […]

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The Family Disease

In my first twelve-step meeting, everyone kept telling me that addiction is a family disease.  I had no idea what they meant.  Eight years later, as I sat in another meeting that I had volunteered to chair, several people arrived that I did not know from our usual group.  That either means that they are a […]

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