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by Cari Thompson on February 1st, 2017 | 3 Comments »
I don’t know if your parents are anything like mine, but when I got engaged to be married to my husband, they loaded me up with approximately eight pajillion marriage books. Don’t worry, they had already given me all the “child rearing” books years earlier. While overwhelming, all of…
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by Signe Whitson on November 30th, 2016 | No Comments »
Teenagers—How does a mother explain how her tween daughter remembers every detail of an episode of iCarly, but can’t for the life of her recall where the hamper is? What’s really going on with an adolescent who quotes verbatim the whispered conversations of faraway classmates, but insists that she…
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by Signe Whitson on August 14th, 2011 | No Comments »
Parenting—Amber had been giving her mother the silent treatment all week. She was angry about not being allowed to sleep over at a friend’s house. Late Thursday night, she left a note on her mother’s pillow, asking her mom to wash her uniform before Friday’s soccer game. When Amber…
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by Signe Whitson on April 24th, 2011 | 1 Comment »
You sense that your husband is harboring feelings of anger at you, but you don’t know what is motivating his hostility. You’ve tried asking him if he is angry, but his standard response is to deny such feelings, then continue to withdraw and sulk.
You know the routine, because you’ve…
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by Signe Whitson on March 13th, 2011 | No Comments »
This might be the most disgusting news story ever: A pizza shop owner in Philadelphia intentionally planted mice into two competitors’ restaurants to sabotage their businesses. Wow.
Two years ago, I created Passive Aggressive Diaries to gather stories about the conniving lengths people go to express their hidden anger and…
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Teenagers: 3 Ways to Help Kids Improve Communication Skills
