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Managing a blended family can be one of the most difficult tasks that anyone will face in a lifetime. Today, a blended family is the norm rather than the exception. If you’re part of a blended family, more than likely you already know how hard it can be to make things work. Today, blended families [...]

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Posted By: Kimberly Byrne Sometimes, life as a married couple isn’t always what one hopes for. Of course, at the beginning everything tends to be just like heaven on earth, but as the months or years pass, small things start to happen that make one realize everything might not be perfect. It can be a [...]

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Celebrate Your Husband This Father’s Day Forget about ties, video cameras, and BBQ supplies. In fact, forget about material items altogether. This Father’s Day, honor the father of your children for the unique individual that he is. Read on for two gift ideas that will hopefully knock his socks off, in one way or another. [...]

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There’s a scene on the Sopranos where Tony takes on AJ, a perpetual underachiever and shmuck even as a 10 year old, in a game of Mariokart.  Tony had spent the better part of a season telling him to “quit wasting his time” but he came down to his kid’s level and they ended up [...]

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  My son was born during the worst of what we’ve been calling “the Great Recession”.  A few months after he was born I got notice of my very temporary layoff from my job as a locomotive conductor. It was a numbers game and I was promised I’d be back in a month, but I [...]

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Posted By: Portia It was Spring time and I was four years old. My father and I were out in our Connecticut back yard. We stood in front of a lilac bush in full, fragrant bloom. He asked me my favorite color. I considered the purple of the lilac blossom and the green of the [...]

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Father’s Day – A Reminder that the “step” part of “stepdad” doesn’t erase the “dad” part. Go ahead.  Turn on the nightly news.  There are a lot of headlines about fathers who do a lot of things other than love their stepchildren.  The features do little to help out society’s view of the stepdad’s plight.  [...]

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By : Russell Bradley Fenton Dear Parents, “The Hunger Games,” “Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part One,” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part Two” were like the three best movies to come out in a long time. Katniss and Peeta are trying to stay alive on a TV show. Bella and Edward [...]

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Staying together “for the kids” is a really bad idea. Doing your best to repair your relationship for the sake of the kids is really good idea. Unhappy parents make children sad, but being separated doesn’t mean that the kids are happy. No adult would want to live out of two homes for 10 or [...]

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This post was submitted to us by Tokii member Joan S. If you would like to submit a story for us to publish on our blog, please contact ceo@tokii.com. With another Mother’s Day soon approaching I can’t help but be afraid of what crazy things my kids will come up with this year. Let me [...]

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