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My Brilliant Solution: Valentine’s Day Cards
Posted on Jan 13, 2009 2:27:00 AM  |  By GretchenRubin

As happens to many people, about five minutes after my first child was born, I was possessed with an irresistible urge to send out yearly holiday cards. However, I recognized my limits. Given my schedule, there was no way I’d...

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The Happiness of Understanding My Daughter Better.
Posted on Oct 23, 2008 5:10:00 AM  |  By GretchenRubin

I had a major insight into my nine-year-old daughter’s nature yesterday. She sometimes falls into a blue and resentful mood (often sparked by something my three-year-old daughter did), and it can be very difficult to jolly her out of it....

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Why I’ve Started Getting Up Earlier.
Posted on Oct 16, 2008 5:02:00 AM  |  By GretchenRubin

Over the summer, my family had leisurely mornings. No longer. From the minute the alarm goes off on my husband’s side of the bed, we’re all rushing to get out the door and on the way to school and work....

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Do You Have a Great Back-to-School Tradition?
Posted on Sep 9, 2008 6:08:00 AM  |  By GretchenRubin

Two of my happiness-project resolutions are to “Be a treasure house of happy memories” and to “Cultivate family traditions.” As a way to keep both of those resolution, a great family tradition that I started was to take a photograph...

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Parenting Advice: The Best Advice I've Ever Heard
Posted on Aug 28, 2008 4:05:00 AM  |  By GretchenRubin

I love a great parenting book, and my all-time favorite remains How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. I think this is the best parenting book out there....

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Help! Any Ideas About Dealing With Jet-Lagged Kids?
Posted on Aug 19, 2008 6:31:00 AM  |  By GretchenRubin

My husband and I, and our nine- and three-year-old daughters, got back from vacation yesterday. We’d just managed to adjust to a time zone six hours ahead of our own, when it was time to leave. Now we’re back home,...

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Need a New Family Tradition? Try Restaurant Night.
Posted on Jul 29, 2008 5:14:00 AM  |  By GretchenRubin

One of my resolutions is to “Cultivate rituals and traditions,” and we recently started a delightful new one (I’ve decided that “new tradition” is no oxymoron). It’s called “Restaurant Night,” and we do it every Saturday night. My older daughter...

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Living with Autism
Posted on Jul 28, 2008 3:40:00 PM  |  By KathleenHarris

I typically blog in Food & Recipes for Simply Stated, but the "Living with Autism" feature from the August issue of REAL SIMPLE hit home. Someone dear to me is on the spectrum, and he constantly amazes me with the...

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Happiness Habit: Photos to Mark the First Day of Camp
Posted on Jul 9, 2008 4:45:49 PM  |  By GretchenRubin

One of my favorite happiness-project resolutions is to Be a treasure house of happy memories. Several years ago, without quite realizing what I was doing, I started a great memory-preserving tradition. Nowadays, on the first and last day of school,...

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Happiness is a Warm Hug. Really.
Posted on Jun 24, 2008 3:04:00 AM  |  By GretchenRubin

One of my Happiness-Project resolutions is “Affectionate touching.” With my family, I’m working on doing more hugging, back rubbing, and making kind gestures, like handing over a utensil, pointing out something interesting, or straightening a shirt. One of our nicest...

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