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Your To-Don't List: Key to Surviving the Holidays

The gods don’t ask for human sacrifice anymore, do they? Then why do millions of women turn themselves into burnt offerings each winter? nnIt hits about mid-November: Obsessive Giving Disorder. Turning ordinary women into Nurturing Ninjas. Hopped-up on hospitality hormones, they launch into a frenzy of baking, shopping, decorating, crocheting, hosting, serving, costuming, shopping, wrapping, preserving and worshipping madly at the altar of Toxic Traditions. It becomes a Sup

November 16, 2005

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Up toYour Neck in Parenting Dogma-Doo? Step into Something Personally-Correct : 5 WARNING SIGNS THAT BIG MOTHER IS WATCHING

WHO’S MAKING YOUR PARENTING DECISIONS? nn You.... or the Mommy Police? nnThe Mommy Police? They’re just a fiction--an adult version of the Bogey Man, aren’t they? nnWell, maybe they don’t actually inhabit the bodies of the living dead like your mother-in-law, your ex-pediatrician and that busybody next door. But there is one place this Gestapo may be alive and well and controlling your life. And that’s inside your own head—enforcing the Shoulds, Shouldn’ts and S

October 30, 2005