Everything I Know About my Teen, I Learned Through Facebook.

Understanding Teenagers through Facebook

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Your teenager and Facebook.

Everything I know about my tween, I learned on Facebook.
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Ultimate Valentine's Day Seductions: The Deals

Two-for-the-Road Valentine's Day Deals

champagne toast chocolate dessertSource: © Ritz-Carlton Hotels.

Champagne and chocolate dessert at Bar Cocoa in Charlotte, NC.

Send your sweetheart on a flight of fancy.
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What to Write on a Loved One's Gravestone

To choose the best epitaph for the marker, think about favorite sayings, poems, and passions.

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Writer Sylvia Plath’s husband, the English poet Ted Hughes, chose these words for his suicidal wife’s gravestone: "Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted."
 

A friend's mother adored gardening and poetry. So her family decided to engrave her bronze gravestone with the final words in William Wadsworth's "Daffodils": "And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils."

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A Primer on Second Cousins Once Removed

Master family relationship terms.

January 31, 2012
Are they first cousins? Second cousins? Once removed? Source: Getty Images

Are they first cousins? Second cousins? Once removed?

Get help figuring out "second cousins" and "once removed."
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Dumb Things People Say to Diabetics

Silly things heard by those with diabetes.

January 31, 2012
Things People Say to DiabeticsSource: Getty Images

Diabetics deal with a lot, including blood sugar tests and shots.

Things Diabetics Hear From People
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Fostering Love: Caregiving Parents Lose a Daughter Whose Life and Death Offer Cherished Lessons

After 30 years of caring for a disabled daughter, time for parents to grieve and care for themselves

Fostering Love: A beloved daughterSource: Photo by Tom Famulari

A Story of Love and Blessings: Bridgette Famulari with her parents

A Blessing: Grieving and celebrating a disabled daughter's life and loss
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How to Cope with the Death of a Parent

Learning to live without a loved one.

January 30, 2012
The viewing at singer Etta James' funeral. Source: Getty Images

Friends and family attend the viewing at singer Etta James' funeral, 2012 in Gardena, Calif., on January 28, 2012.


 

Help for anyone grieving over the loss of a mother or father.
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Ultimate Valentine’s Day Seductions: The Meal

Find Valentine’s Day Inspiration Here

inn little washington plateSource: © Susan Breslow.

The way to a man (and woman's) heart at the Inn at Little Washington.

Get into truffles this Valentine's Day.
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A Bill of Rights for the Grieving

From the Bereaved: Don’t tell me how to mourn

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Lose a loved one? You have the right to grieve at your own pace, in your own way.

Grief and Healing: What the bereaved wish you knew
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