By Jane Clifford at February 1, 2012 | 8:55 pm | 0 Comment

ShareWelcome to our Q&A with the experts. For February, the topic is your child’s first crush. Well, it is the month of love … Ruth Peters was a clinical psychologist, parenting expert, author and frequent contributor to the TODAY Show. She passed away, at 60, in August 2010 of ovarian cancer but she will live [...]
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By Jane Clifford at January 1, 2012 | 4:10 pm | 1 Comments

ShareWelcome to our Q&A with the experts. For January, the topic is making the changes you want to make … that you don’t want to make! David B. Wexler, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in San Diego and Executive Director of the non-profit Relationship Training Institute (RTI). He is the author of five books and numerous [...]
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By Jane Clifford at December 1, 2011 | 6:36 am | 15 Comments

ShareWelcome to our Q&A with the experts. For December, the topic is managing the stress that is as much a part of the holiday season as anything else. Pauline Wallin, Ph.D., is a psychologist in Camp Hill, Pa., and author of “Taming Your Inner Brat: A Guide for Transforming Self-Defeating Behavior.” She has been quoted in [...]
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Q&A divorce, holidays, in-laws, money, parenting, Pauline Wallin, stress
By Jane Clifford at November 1, 2011 | 7:41 am | 14 Comments
ShareWelcome to our Q&A with the experts. For November, the topic is getting along with difficult relatives. Gretchen Rubin is the best-selling writer whose book, “The Happiness Project,” is the account of the year she spent test-driving studies and theories about how to be happier. You can learn more at her website. Here, she shares [...]
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Q&A family gatherings, Gretchen Rubin, stress
By Jane Clifford at October 1, 2011 | 7:35 am | 0 Comment

ShareWelcome to our Q&A with the experts. For October, the topic coincides with the opening of the museum’s new exhibition on trash. What better “spokesman” on the subject than Oscar, the resident grouch on Sesame Street, whose home is a trash can. He has an, uh, appreciation for trash, as you can see here: But [...]
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