“Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how.”
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I think that the loneliest time in a woman’s life is when her children are little and demand all of her attention. It leaves little time to go out and see “grown up” people. But that needn’t be the case…
Just yesterday I saw the young mom who lives next door, get her children ready, and wander down the sidewalk. And it seems to work. Every time I look out my office window, she’s chatting with someone. She probably knows more people on the street than I do!

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Any new social scene can be really tough. Having all new classmates, joining a brand-new group of kids on a soccer team, transferring to a new school, going away to camp alone and most of all moving isn’t easy. And oh how kids can pour on the guilt to remind us they’re not happy campers: “You’re ruining my life!” “Why are you sending me to that dumb old school?” “Why can’t we move back to our old neighborhood? Do you have any idea how unhappy you made me?”
Knowing that our kids are lonely, feel left out, and desperately miss …read more