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Summer Learning: Helping Your Child Make Smart Life Choices

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Summer Learning—I recently bought $750 worth of goats to help feed families living on a dump, in Africa. We received pictures of them, and my kids and I named each one. Ruby, Bob, Max and 12 others. My boys learned a geography lesson about Africa, a cultural lesson…

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Visionary: 3 Steps to Living a Great Life

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What's your legacy? Ask anyone the same question, and you'll get different answers, depending on what's important to them. Maybe it's giving back, or teaching your kids to do the same. Maybe it's finding unique ways to learn, grow, and bond together as a family.…

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ONE.org Is Making Every Day a Happy Mother’s Day for African Women

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Making a Difference—At the beginning of this year, ONE.org asked me to sit on its ONE moms advisory council. Having been a long time supporter, I immediately said yes! For those unfamiliar with the organization:

ONE is a grassroots advocacy and campaigning organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable

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Empowerment: Becoming a Leader and Achieving Dreams

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I write a lot of leadership books for executives and CEOs, but as a mom I can't help but relate the character traits of a leader to the character traits of an exceptional friend, spouse, parent, or sibling. When you possess the personality of a leader, you strive to

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Friendships: How to Surround Yourself With Positive Relationships

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The smallest change can change your life. My pilates teacher recently confided in me that she had to end a friendship with a mom she loved because of the way the kids interacted. "I didn't like the influence her kids were having on mine," she said.
Does that seem drastic?…

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Healthy Relationships: Building Strong Connections is Similar to Gardening

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Whether you're raising kids, or building a marriage or a business, it's important to fertilize, cultivate, and nurture in order to see growth. Building strong connections that last is a lot like creating a garden. There's soil to till, seeds to plant, watering to be done, and a lot of…

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