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Ask Rene: Why Won’t My Mom Support Me?

By   /  May 21, 2013  /  Ask Rene, Family & Home, The Latest  /  5 Comments

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Ask Rene: Why Won’t My Mom Support Me?   My mom gets angry very easily. When I get bad grades and do other bad things, all I know is that she is ready to get angry. I’ve tried steering around this by lying, and it works, but I don’t feel this is a healthy relationship. [...]

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Ask Rene: I HATE Volunteering At My Kids’ School!

By   /  May 8, 2013  /  Ask Rene, Family & Home, The Latest  /  3 Comments

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Ask Rene: I HATE Volunteering At My Kids’ School!   Dear Rene, Congratulations on all your hard work!  I wish I could be a little more like you which is why I’m writing for help.  I’ve just moved to a new town with my 11-year-old son.

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Ask Rene: My Daughter Is Lying About Being Abused!

By   /  April 24, 2013  /  Ask Rene, Family & Home, The Latest  /  5 Comments

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Ask Rene: My Daughter Is Lying About Being Abused! My 11-year-old daughter, has consistently lied about things from an early age. Problem is, I worked more than I was home, and I never really noticed it in the early stages. It came to light when she began accusing my second husband of beating her brothers [...]

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Ask Rene: HELP! I Have A Bad Reputation!

By   /  April 10, 2013  /  Ask Rene, Family & Home, The Latest  /  5 Comments

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Ask Rene: HELP! I Have A Bad Reputation!     Dear Rene, I am only 12 but I have a very bad reputation. I am getting in fights and I really want to change that, really for my dad. People say it’s just a phase but I have been this way for a long time. [...]

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Ask Rene: Puberty And The Pill.. How Do I Talk To My Mom?

By   /  April 3, 2013  /  Ask Rene, Family & Home, The Latest  /  4 Comments

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Ask Rene: Puberty And The Pill.. How Do I Talk To My Mom?   Hi Rene:  HELP! I am 13.  I have had my period for a year and they are very irregular.. and I am a virgin! I don’t plan on having sex until I am married but I want to go on the pill [...]

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Ask Rene: My Daughter HATES Her Nose! (Video) | Good Enough is Perfect

By   /  March 30, 2013  /  Ask Rene, Family & Home, The Latest, Video  /  No Comments

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Ask Rene: My Daughter HATES Her Nose! (Video) | Good Enough is Perfect Who among us has not felt a wee bit insecure about some body part, traveling the path from adolescence to adulthood? I know I was. Boney knees, a flat-chest and being very, VERY skinny did not make for fun times for me [...]

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Ask Rene: How Can I Make My Sister-In-Law Like Me?

By   /  March 26, 2013  /  Ask Rene, Eyes Wide Open, The Latest  /  1 Comment

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Ask Rene: How Can I Make My Sister-In-Law Like Me?   My husband and I have been together for six years, married for the last three. In the beginning things seemed fine between my husband’s sister and me but about a year after dating my husband, my mother-in-law told me that my sister-in-law has never [...]

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Ask Rene: What More Can We Do For Our Daughter?

By   /  March 19, 2013  /  Ask Rene, Family & Home, The Latest  /  6 Comments

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Ask Rene: What More Can We Do For Our Daughter?   Rene, what more can I say and do to help support my 22-year-old daughter? She is a mother of two boys ages five and four. Her mother and I help with her youngest son while the other son is in pre-K; we have been [...]

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Ask Rene: I Need Help But Where Do I Start?

By   /  March 12, 2013  /  Ask Rene, Family & Home, The Latest  /  7 Comments

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Ask Rene: I Need But Where Do I Start? Hi Rene, I am a full-time working mother of four children ages, 13, 11, 8 and 6. My husband is wonderful but out of the house for 12-14 hours a day. I find myself becoming overwhelmed, frustrated and short tempered with the kids as a result [...]

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Ask Rene: I’m Scared To Tell My Kids They’re Adopted

By   /  March 6, 2013  /  Ask Rene, Family & Home, The Latest  /  3 Comments

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Ask Rene: I’m Scared To Tell My Kids They’re Adopted     Hi Rene: I’ve been following you for some time now and,  for the most part, agree with the advice you give. Now I’m coming to you with a situation of my own. Early in our marriage, my husband and I added to our [...]

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