Looks like we’re on a roll on family related posts. Anyway, today, mothers-in-law. Amiable relationships between in-laws are almost rare. There’s usually a gap or an unspeakable hate between them. That is the common scenario.

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Parenthood is not an easy job. You can get all the help you need in textbooks and manuals online but it all goes down to how you can meet your child’s various needs – from physiological to everything else. The chances of you achieving the best dad award depend on how much you’re willing to [...]

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Work is not always stressful. What I mean to say is that sometimes it is we who create our own problems in the workplace. It is not always the case that we are stressed by unreasonable deadlines, boss’ impossible expectations, or unnerving colleagues. Sometimes the problem is our inability to rise above the usual work [...]

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Do you know anyone who just can’t hold their temper? Well, anger is common among all men and women and it is a common emotion across races and cultures. Different people get angry for different reasons. Anger, when not managed properly, can ruin relationships and almost everything you hold dear. Take a look at these [...]

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The office need not be the place where all your stress is made. And work doesn’t have to translate to anxiety. I for one, can’t help feeling jealous whenever I meet a colleague who enjoys work as life itself. I wish to have that kind of vitality because a worker who loves his work is [...]

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Here are some tips on manners when eating out, whether it’s in a five star restaurant or your friendly town diner.

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This might be a simple experiment that you could do on yourself. Observe the moments where you just feel the urge to splurge and the moments where you just feel down and miserable? Got a correlation? Well this Seattle Times report indicates that compulsive buying might just be a disorder and that your splurges and [...]

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Toughness isn’t all about being physical and macho so that you can bully that geeky kid on the block. By tough we mean being emotionally and mentally strong enough to weather out the challenges that life dishes out. We can all just drown in all of those stories of people just giving up and shutting [...]

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And we don’t mean your puckers on his/her butt. Sometimes the thin line that makes the difference between a nightmare job and a dream job is a good relationship with your boss. I’ve had one too many friends who complain about their jobs. All of them acknowledge, though, that their jobs will be a whole [...]

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We can’t just do away with all the stories of domestic violence that we come across. We read them often in the news but domestic violence tales are so common, you might hear it from someone you know. Like this one person a friend knows who suffered a nervous breakdown because of repeated abuse by [...]

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If you are a natural born introvert – shy, timid, bashful, and demure — you might agree if I say that there are times you regret being the way you are. Why? That’s because being an introvert translates to being inhibited. You end up being the natural wallflower instead of being the life of the [...]

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Being the boss requires a high level of leadership. Since you are the one who’s driving your team, it is important that you can control your personnel to some extent. In any team, it is common to have employee problems, because managing them depends largely on individual differences such as work attitude, motivation factors, and [...]

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It’s hard to sort out individual differences because at the onset, differences naturally result in conflicts. But today’s setup requires you to be more flexible and accepting of other people regardless of background, culture, and history.

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Isn’t it true that most of your brilliant ideas don’t live long enough to evolve into something tangible? When you think of something promising, don’t let it slip away by putting it on hold because tendency is you’ll either forget about it, or lose interest.

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How well do you do in conversations? How would you rate yourself as a conversationalist? A chat is different from a conversation in such a way that a conversation is much more meaningful and effective in terms of communication Being a great conversationalist is a kind of power. To have people glued to the conversation [...]

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