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By Wendy Donahue, Chicago Tribune | Jan. 11 at 10:35 p.m. When the stakes of a conversation are high, many of us clam up or blow up. A recent survey by Al Switzler, Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny and Ron McMillan, co-authors of “Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High” (McGraw-Hill), found that the person most people struggle to hold difficult, life-changing conversations with is their boss. Spouses are second. In the survey, 525 respondents identified a single conversation that had life-altering consequences. More than half said the effects of this one conversation lasted forever. Nearly two-thirds permanently damaged a relationship. One in seven harmed a career.
By Nikki Metzgar, McClatchy-Tribune | Jan. 5 at 12:06 a.m. Because making mimosa-fueled declarations about your love life over brunch with your friends isn’t the same as an organized to-do list for better dating, I’m taking the New Year as an opportunity to ensure I never listen to Adele by the light of a single flickering candle ever again.
1. Call more, text less. By Jeannine Stein, Los Angeles Times | Dec. 29 at 8:05 a.m. Working mothers may be less depressed and healthier than their stay-at-home counterparts, a study finds.
By ELLEN GIBSON, Associated Press | Dec. 29 at 8:03 a.m. Rosa Feddersen and her husband bought their dream retirement home on a lake in Oklahoma City five years ago. He, a pilot for U.S. Airways, was nearing the end of his career, and the area had everything the couple wanted.
By Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune | Dec. 22 at 7:48 a.m. Growing up, Alan Godwin knew what to expect at holiday gatherings: the faces, the foods, the hour-long monologues from that one very well-informed uncle0.
By Janice D’Arcy Washington Post | Dec. 15 at 5:35 a.m. Celebrating the holidays with children can be magical, sometimes.
By Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune | Dec. 15 at 5:34 a.m. One child wants a whole bunch of gifts. The other doesn’t want much. Are you obligated to spend equally?
By Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune | Dec. 8 at 8:01 a.m. The beauty of holiday traditions lies in their consistency, familiarity and sure-as-the-setting-sun dependability.
Dec. 1 at 7:51 a.m. When you think about it, 31 days aren’t nearly enough to pack in all the shopping, baking, wrapping, hosting and mailing required to celebrate the winter holidays. But every year, we try to cram it all in between today and New Year’s.
By Rebecca D. O’Brien, The Record (Hackensack N.J.) | Dec. 1 at 7:50 a.m. HACKENSACK, N.J. — A children’s book. An Elmo phone. A plastic sleeping mask.
By Kristin Tillotson, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) | Nov. 24 at 7:23 a.m. Putting family first on Thanksgiving Day means more than converging around a common feast for a couple of hours before retiring to the den, the football game — and Facebook.
By Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune | Nov. 16 at 2:45 p.m. Q. Your daughter wants to invite her somewhat troubled pal to Thanksgiving. You’re a little nervous about the relatives’ reaction. How to navigate?
By Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune | Nov. 16 at 2:49 p.m. You could cordon off the kids in the playroom while you chop, stir and saute; banish them to the little folding table while you stuff yourselves silly; and throw in a DVD while you clean up the dishes.
By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, Chicago Tribune | Nov. 9 at 10:06 p.m. No offense to Virgos, but Victoria Floro is pretty sure it won’t work out.
BY SUZANNE PEREZ TOBIAS, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 4 at 12:47 a.m. For more than six years, children have loved the drawbridges, ponies, peasant dresses and shining armor in Exploration Place's medieval-inspired "Once Upon a Castle" gallery.
By RASHA MADKOUR, Associated Press | Nov. 2 at 12:50 p.m. MIAMI – There’s a new routine these days whenever Amber Mullaney goes out to eat at a restaurant. While waiting to be seated, she asks her husband to get the phone ready to hand over to their 2-year-old daughter, Tatum.
BY CHRIS McNAMARA, Chicago Tribune | Oct. 31 at 6:13 a.m. Jenny Kales spent the last few hours of a recent Halloween night scraping from her front stoop the peanut butter candies that trick-or-treaters had dropped in their dashes from door to door. She’s not an obsessive cleaner, mind you, just a mother of a child with a food allergy.
BY SUZANNE PEREZ TOBIAS, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 20 at 11:26 a.m. A recent report from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture — what, you don’t subscribe? — predicts that coffee and chocolate could become luxuries few can afford if temperatures continue to rise thanks to climate change.
By AMY DUNN, McClatchy Newspapers | Oct. 31 at 6:13 a.m. Here’s a Halloween factoid to frighten the frugal soul: Americans adults plan to spend an average $72.31 EACH on Halloween candy, decorations and costumes for themselves, their kids and their pets this year, according to the National Retail Federation. And that’s up nearly 10 percent from last year.
BY ALEXIA ELEJAIDE-RUIZ, Chicago Tribune | Oct. 12 at 2:09 p.m. Being nasty is apparently quite lucrative, according to a new study that found “less agreeable” employees earn higher paychecks (18 percent more among men, 5 percent among women) than their nicer counterparts.
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