ARE TEXTING TEENS FORGETTING HOW TO TALK? By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Last month my 16-year-old sent and received 8,307 texts. Yes, you read that number correctly – 8,307 text messages in one billing cycle. Of course, she says that number is misleading. “They count the sent messages, too, and.
[Read More]THE NEW NORMAL DOES NOT INCLUDE WHINING By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Welcome to the new normal. Your 401(k) has tanked, your job is hanging by a thread, and purchases you once considered routine are now major life decisions. Many have suggested the current economic challenges are causing us to.
[Read More]The evil stepmother is a staple villain of fairy tales. A wicked witch who cackles into a mirror, she starves her husband’s children while she wallows in riches. Today’s stepmoms might not be accused of casting spells, but talk to any first wife about her husband’s new wife and.
[Read More]The evil stepmother is a staple villain of fairy tales. A wicked witch who cackles into a mirror, she starves her husband’s children while she wallows in riches. Today’s stepmoms might not be accused of casting spells, but talk to any first wife about her husband’s new wife and.
[Read More]WHAT THE GREEK? CHOMPING AND CHATTING By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com I may be a pasty-faced white woman with working-class German and American roots, but I think my soul is Greek. I love this country. I’m writing from Greece, where I have discovered an entire country of people who share.
[Read More]JUDGING THE MOMENT MAKES MISERY FOR EVERYONE By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com It’s just a moment. It’s the moment when the usually calm mother screams at her kids, or the normally kind man losing his temper or the competent TV news anchor rolls her eyes after a trying segment. Yet.
[Read More]CAN YOU GET FIRED FOR BEING FAT? By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Are you too fat for your job? There’s been some debate in the media about whether or not Surgeon General nominee Regina Benjamin is too overweight for the position. On behalf of chubby, middle-aged, smart women, I feel.
[Read More]TEEN PREGNANCY: AN UNEXPECTED CALL TO EMOTIONAL MATURITY By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Sixteen and pregnant. It’s bad enough it happens, but now you get to watch it on television. The TV season may be over, but the angst lives on. Thanks to my two daughters, my DVR is filled.
[Read More]SUPPORT DOESN’T ALWAYS MEAN SAYING YOU’RE WONDERFUL By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Who’s got your back? Do you have people in your life that you can count on to support you, no matter what? Sometimes it all depends on how you interpret the word “support.” We all need people who.
[Read More]SUPPORT DOESN’T ALWAYS MEAN SAYING YOU’RE WONDERFUL By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Who’s got your back? Do you have people in your life that you can count on to support you, no matter what? Sometimes it all depends on how you interpret the word “support.” We all need people who.
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