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TABLE OF CONTENTS
 SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS
FOR TEENS
FOR
COUPLES AND PARENTS
FOR SENIORS AND THEIR
ADULT CHILDREN
FOR EVERYONE
WHOLEFAMILY BOOKSTORE
A FINAL THOUGHT
SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS
Many of our articles now come with our
own RealGreetings - Real Cards for Real Life highlighted
on the same page. To see the full display, go to RealGreetings.
Want to learn how to write the right kind of letter to the one
you love (or don't?). See our new feature RealLetters.
Holiday season got you feeling angry sometimes? Try out our WholeFamily
Fire Alarm and learn how to Reduce
Your Anger Through Imagery. The exercise, by Dr. Gerald Epstein,
is in Flash, Audio and Text.
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FAMILY
FUN for any time of year!
FOR TEENS
Experience something really new and different! Guided
Imagery Exercises special for Teens by Dr. Gerald Epstein.
See what Sara Eisen has to say on Life
as the Friend of a Man Magnet and read her Thanksgiving editorial
on Reality
Entertainment.
Tamra Dawn talks about self-esteem in Critical
Mess.
Feeling
Pressure to Drink? Read our Dramalogue by the same name, by
Naomi Zelwer. Read the same author's new drama on Love
Obsession.
Parents and Teens, Can
You See Each Other?
Read also new items on Body
Image and Your
Thoughts on Sex.
CHECK OUT MORE NEW ITEMS IN THE TEEN CENTER NEOBYTES AND
ALL OVER THE TEEN
CENTER.
FOR COUPLES AND PARENTS
In Thanksgiving
Road Trip, Sherri Lederman Mandell (Under
Sherri's Hat) describes a humorous family travel scene that
will assure you you're not alone! The same author asks, "Sure
he can get to the moon. But can he find the ingredients for fettuccine
Alfredo?" in Going
Places.
Practice Dr. Gerald Epstein's Imagery
Exercises for a Happier Marriage.
Read Dr. Sylvia Rimm's exclusive WholeFamily answers to
a parent's question on a Nine
Year Old who Doesn't Like School.
Dr. Mitchell Perry Center for Couples' Communication can
help you get
in touch with your spouse again.
Read the poem, Reverie,
by Rivkah Moses.
Chantal Danino Holt writes a moving essay, Unfolding
as a Mother - Mothering and Personal Growth. Chantal also says,
"Until you accept that something is wrong and that you need
to do something about it, you will find yourself in an up-hill battle
against everything that comes your way." Read more in Inner
Work.
Check out how to be the best stepfather (or mother) you can be
in Positive
Steps to Happy Step Fathering.
Read about the tension that Natalie and Paul experience when one
feels the other isn't pulling her weight, in "Get
a Job!"
Do
the Experts Drive You Crazy? Read What Ruth Mason has
to say on it.
Dr. Shoshana Hayman, a parent educator who has worked with
the best-selling Faber&Mazlish, gives her answer in You
are the Expert.
Sara Rivka Ernstoff, in Experts
- To Trust or Not to Trust?, claims, "The best thing these
experts have done for me is shown me that I'm the only true expert
on my children."
Get to other articles on the "expert dilemma" through
our What's New box at the WholeFamily
Parent Center.
Diapers got you down? Read about Early
Toilet Training from our "Toilet Training Queen",
Esther Boylan Wolfson, MSW.
Michaela Russell laments that, "Even though I am certain
that my kids are happy, safe, stimulated and loved, my hungry motherhood
mourns that it's not me doing all of it," in Working
on Being.
FOR
SENIORS AND THEIR ADULT CHILDREN
All material in our Senior Center appears in large print. Please
print and share with your less computer-literate senior parents.
Planning on Vacationing
with Grandchildren? Read Rochelle Furstenberg's tips
on how to get through it and still love each other.
Read adult daughters' Changing
Perceptions of their mothers.
Have a wonderful time reading how Cecily Stansbury's Mom
Lives it Up.
Experienced senior social worker Leah Abramowitz shares
important information on Memory
Improvement.
Miriam Lock reveals the secret on Recognizing
Depression.
FOR EVERYONE
Looking for some meaningful family activities? Check out the WholeFamily
Room's Treasure
Chest, by Shari Davis.
Want to relax over the holidays with a good video? Read our reviews
of films and print out discussion questions that will help you discuss
them with your family. Find both at The
Family View on Films.
Be sure to check out the topics of Blended Family Weddings,
Teenage Birth Control and Moving at our WholeFamily
Room RoundTable.
WHOLEFAMILY
BOOKSTORE
Visit our Barnes
& Noble affiliate bookstore. The book we'd like to highlight
and recommend this month is My
Self, My Family, My Friends - 26 Experts Explore Young Children's
Self-Esteem, edited by Betty Farber, M.Ed. Twenty-six experts
share their theories and experience to help you become a more confident
and skilled parent.
A FINAL THOUGHT
Appropriate for Thanksgiving:
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those
who can do nothing for him.
-- James D. Miles
Happy Thanksgiving from the WholeFamily Center!
Toby Klein Greenwald, Editor
The WholeFamily Newsletter
Write to us at: toby@wholefamily.com
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