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Making friends can be harder for some kids than others but there are ways you can help develop your child's social skills to ensure they can build healthy friendships now and in the future.
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This is how to deal with them.
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Can you keep the friends and family of your ex post break-up?
They say when you get married, you marry your spouse’s friends and family, too. So what happens after a divorce? Evelyn Lewin finds out.
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Don't try to guilt me into waking up early
I love sleep.
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Mum compares her mental load to her husband's
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'Date night' isn't romantic, but it's kind of necessary
The truth of the matter is, when you're freshly in love there's little need for 'date night'.
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Woman gives best ever response to cheating husband
When this married woman received unwelcome advances from someone else's husband desperate to cheat on his wife with her, she didn't let him down easy. The conversation started out with a polite suggestion that they should go out some time, but turned into some serious life advice in next to no time.
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Please don't praise my husband for being a stay-at-home dad
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