Never have we had to face so many difficult questions about our parents all at once.
How about our aging parents?? You notice that no one is debating the benefits to them.
Here are some pointers from our frequently asked questions about how we can get our aging parents to accept help at home. (Learn more in How to Choose a Home Care Worker).
Most of us who are middle aged and have aging parents have never had to learn about how to take care of our parents or how to best help them.
"We were all taught about talking to strangers by our parents but there are few people who are computer savvy enough to pass on advice to kids who use the internet, " said its spokesman.
And we have to make sure that our parents have -- parents have good information about what foods are good for kids, what snacks are healthy and how much -- how large of a portion size we should have.
We can be more creative than most of our parents ever were about this.
But only because we worked so hard to make sure the inconsistencies we were both taught in our parents' homes about what kinds of people were worthy to love would never be a part of our home or life together.
We must not fear insulting our parents by asking them about what we observe.
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But I'll bet that none of us otherwise-upstanding parents feel good about lying to our kids, and yet, we persist.
"We let our parents die before we really thought about asking them questions, " Knox said.
Across the country, different groups are coming together to bring about change in our schools -- teachers unions and parents groups, businesses and community organizations.
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In many cases, corporate culture has shifted from more of a focus on long-term shareholder value, as I believe was prevalent for our parents and grandparents, to being more about rewarding executives at the expense of shareholders and workers.
If the Palin family story is discussed at all, it should be in the broader context of how, as parents, we talk to our children about sex and how, as a nation, we support mothers and address teenage pregnancy but not as fodder for public gossip.
As parents, everybody here is concerned about the quality of our education system, and making college more affordable and accessible.
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Nancy writes about the urgency of having certain legal documents in place to help our parents before they need it.
Parents need to spend as much time telling our kids about proper and responsible technology use as we do about personal hygiene, social interactions, or study habits.
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"Our goal is to show that some decision about elective C-sections may cause changes that parents can't see but nevertheless affect development, " says Kozyrskyj.
As our children's first teachers, parents and guardians can help by talking to their kids about the dangers of substance abuse.
"We, the parents of Kyle 'Jabbers' Vaughan, would like to appeal for information about the disappearance of our son, " they said in a statement on Thursday.
About 14 years ago, when I was a parent of young children, as preparation for a talk at a doctors' meeting about vaccines, I surveyed (rather informally) parents - mostly mothers of course - waiting in the playground of our local primary school.
And as parents, all of us can take the time to hold our kids close and talk with them about the things that truly matter: our love for them, the importance of extending that love to those affected by this tragedy, and how that love truly defines our great American community.
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