Remember the Jennifer Lopez starred movie, “Monster In¬ law,” where an enthusiastic Lopez has to wrestle with the crafty ministrations of her sly mother-in-law, played by Jane Fonda? Well, truth can be stranger than fiction, and if your mother-in-law happens to share an alarming similarity with Fonda’s character, it’s time to keep her on her toes. How to do so? Take a quick sneak peek at the article.Continue reading
Stay‑at‑home Moms vs. Working Moms: Which One is Harder
A not so frequent advertisement on television hints at a very pertinent fact; the initial guilt-stricken conscience of a working mom on leaving her reluctant toddler at a dare care center, is shown to easily subside on the assurance of unlimited care provided by their proclaimed product. Rather high and mighty! Now, let’s try to imagine the probable responses of our two types of moms:Continue reading
How to Get Kids to Do Chores: A Peep into the Ways
In Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” although little Tom’s thankless job of whitewashing the fence is an unpleasant punishment, yet, it is his ingenious manner of making the work irresistibly attractive that makes his initially reluctant friends finally beg and plead him to hand over the same task to them.Continue reading
Aggression in Children: Analyzing the Agony and Finding Solutions
The uproar concerning the unexpected death of thirteen-year-old James was palpable. The demand for transparent investigation was monumental. However, mass memory is transient, and soon James would survive only in discarded newspaper articles. But what about the fatal trait that had driven the boy to be unabashedly reckless with such a vital entity called life? Aggression, discernable in almost all the activities of the child, had been the very crucible of his death. But the fallacy had not been momentous; it had proliferated like a deadly virus, finally rendering its victim powerless before its sway.Continue reading
Narcissistic Sister-in-Law: Measures to Nip the Nuisance in the Bud
What Dickens had surmised during the conception of Miss Murdstone’s character is unforeseeable, but it’s pretty transparent that he shared his protagonist’s views in tarnishing Miss Murdstone as a “steely and cold” woman. Now, who is Miss Murdstone? Well, Miss Murdstone in Dickens’ “David Copperfield” embodies all those dominating sisters-in-law, whose sole purpose seems to disarray the placid lives of their almost perfect brother’s totally imperfect wives.Continue reading
Verbally Abusive Husbands: Living and Dealing with Them
It can be stated univocally that in many cases, successful sons or daughters carry with them the unrecognized tag of a domestic picture that is marked among other things by mutual compatibility of parents. Doesn’t ring a bell? Well, peep into the net. Our point of discussion, however, doesn’t revolve around blissful families.Continue reading
Blended Family Problems: Pursuing the Means of Resolution
It is a truth seldom universally acknowledged that some relations best survive apart. Not quite clear? Imagine yourself taking fancy towards nurturing a harmless cat and your mother incurs diphtheria. Blended families suffer pretty much the same predicament. In major cases, middle-aged couples no doubt bring with them years of accumulated maturity; but there also drags with them mostly uninvited, the progeny of past relations. And it is this undiluted heterogeneous mixture that pops up recurrent hiccups of open resentment, aggression, and palpable foreboding that become rigidly nonresponsive to diverse parenting medications.Continue reading
How to Trust Your Husband: Exploring the Means of Rebuilding Trust in Marriage
You have felt it often; a fleeting moment of stupefaction followed in some dire cases by a spate of unbridled jealousy and finally an all-consuming rage. Now, what were the successive occasions behind the eruption of such overbearing emotions?Continue reading
Communication in Marriage: A Quick Look at the Problems and Their Solutions
Familiar with the movie, “What women want?’’ Well, in case no, let’s enlighten you a bit. Mel Gibson in this romantic comedy accidentally succeeds in gaining full access to the intricate thought pattern of a woman’s mind. This, rather bizarre boon enables him to remodel his way of communicating to women, metamorphosing his otherwise sassy, nonchalant ranting to a sophisticated and emphatic one. The outcome? His so called once reputed adversary falls for him head over heels.Continue reading
Teenage Rebellion: Probing Into the Causes and Ways to Handle it
Tagore, in one of his quaint short stories, has poignantly drawn a parallel between a teenager and an unloved stray dog; the point of assimilation strikingly apparent in the helplessness in which both are doomed. Akin to the dog, a teenager in most cases becomes a misfit in his family; his pounding discomforts are a source of perennial nuisance; he is scolded unreasonably at times, his emotions undermined and his barking stamped as rebellion.Continue reading