From a grown up child of divorce – practical guides and a place to rant
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Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Carolyn and I have been thinking about starting this blog for a long time now. I was worried though. Mostly worried about what others would think. What would my family, friends and husband make of all this. But I decided to heck with it! We need a [...]
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But today he gave me even more. Today he wrote a generous and loving post about this place on his own website, which is eagerly read by more people than I even know. His confidence in me is both humbling and inspiring.
So if you haven’t already been there, please do me the favor of taking a look [...]
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It’s a tale of woe. My poor little newborn blog died. At least it was quick. It didn’t suffer. The only thing suffering around here was me. And my family from dealing with me. Oh yeah, and my hosting provider fromdealing with my many and sometimes weepy phone calls. Ok, so everyone suffered a little [...]
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My friend Frank Fradella produces a weekly podcast called LINGO. It is a collection of hand picked world pop music with the premise behind it being that music in and of itself transcends language and culture. And I think he’s right. I’m not a big listener of world music, but I’ve really enjoyed listening to [...]
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How do you protect your children from your parents? The question seems ridiculous even as I write it. Because once you have children a transition occurs. Your parents stop being just your parents and become your children’s grandparents. And what do we envision when we think of grandparents? For most of us, we think of [...]
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We all have our memories. Some are good and some are bad. A million little clips and images that when put together spell out our lives. What is your very best memory? Ok, that one can be difficult. What is your very best memory of your parents?
I think my parents might be surprised about what [...]
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A dear friend of mine just pointed out to me that the theme of being closed off or walled up is common among my posts. And I have to concede that he’s right. My best kept secret, From a recovering perfectionist, Splintered and The connected ones all have this common thread. Of feeling like I’ve [...]
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It was one month ago today that I asked two people to type www.thegrownupchild.ca into their web browsers and tell me what they thought of this place. I had only one post completed: ‘Take a deep breath….and write!’. I had been working for a week solid on getting a web server, downloading programs, uploading those [...]
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Today is a pretty exciting day for me here at thegrownupchild.ca! Last night, I happened to comment on a really great blog post at: www.coparenting101.org. It’s a wonderful and well established website that offers a wealth of information on the subject of co-parenting. One of the co-founders of the site, Deesha took a look at [...]
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Every family has a system. A set of rules and expectations with regards to communicating and interacting with each other. And every family is different. There are general types of family systems but families are like snowflakes. Each one varying slightly or even greatly from another. And if that weren’t specific enough, each pair of [...]
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