Family

Why eat at the dinner table?

Bernard Toutounji | 11 July 2012

What accounts for this decline in families eating together today though? The data seems to point to two main issues: Overworked parents and over-scheduled children. When mum and dad get home in the evening they are soon in the car again to whisk the children off to sport, music, tutoring, church activities and a host of other events.

SM: Maintaining contact across great distances

Katie Hinderer | 01 April 2012

Usually when I give social media presentations and I ask people to list the positive aspects the first, and often only, good thing people name is the ability to keep in touch over great distances.

He left a boy and returned a man

Katie Hinderer | 01 February 2012

But the most significant changes to me are the ones that aren’t noticeable with the human eye. He left for boot camp a boy and returned a man.

Dating 2011: You can pick your friends, but…

Elyse Burns | 21 April 2011

I don’t know who said that, but it is one of the truest statements I have ever heard. You can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your family. With most of our friends, there’s a point in the relationship where one or both people decide that they would like to have a deeper connection with the other.

Thanksgiving is all about people

Katie Hinderer | 28 November 2010

In a word, it’s all about connections – family, friends. You can’t imagine not being with the people you love; so much so that anyone not surrounded by family and friends on the day will receive numerous invitations to join other people’s Thanksgiving festivities.

Surviving a big family, helps with college survival

Kamilah Thorpe | 07 June 2010

Being the eldest of six children has shaped me into a successful college student and a happy young woman.