Word: righting
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...right to teach our children that a bad marriage is better than no marriage? I think not! My children are a product of my marriage as well as my divorce. I have always tried to teach them that my mistakes are not theirs and they should base their decisions on their experiences in life, not mine. My parents should have divorced years ago, and their experience made me realize that I would never stay in any relationship in which I was not happy. I think it is more important to let children know that both parents love them...
...live in Honduras, you better believe it, mister. A trend among Hondurans to name their children after car parts (e.g., Miracle Tire) has led to a proposed ban on "extravagant" names. If so violated, children would have the right to sue their parents for giving them "gross and insulting" names. But if you live anywhere besides Honduras, go right ahead...
...kids. "Growing up, my friends dreamed of their weddings or of the families they would have," Tennant, 37, says. "I dreamed about my career." She loved her job as a director of human resources for the Northern California branch of a Big Six consulting company and went right back to work after her daughter Hannah was born in 1993. "I felt no pull from home when I was at work and no pull from work when I was at home. I felt perfectly balanced." Then she had her second child. During maternity leave, she spent more time with Hannah than...
...ranch, located at an 8,300-ft. elevation in the Rockies, has a respected riding program. Guests young and old can choose just the right mount from among 175 horses, then train in an indoor arena. Or they can ride on packed trails where they will hear nothing but the muffled thump of the horse's hooves and the whistling of the wind through the pines and aspens. There are many other ways to traverse the great outdoors: cross-country skis, snowshoes, sleds, skates and snowmobiles--even a sleigh behind two Belgian draft horses. Downhill-ski enthusiasts can schuss...
...feeling of being "shunted aside or pushed out" when the room is taken over is common, notes Sara Moss Herz, a psychologist in Westport, Conn.--even for children embarked on independent lives. "There's still that fantasy that you can go back and do it right," she explains. "If there's an office or guest room there, that's pretty concrete evidence that life has moved...