Carolyn Hax
I realize that people fly with small children all the time, and that babies are easier in some ways because all they do is sit/lie around anyway, but damn it's hard to keep a baby comfortable on any flight, much less a long one, particularly amid the looks of horror they will get from fellow passengers as it dawns on them that their 10- to 13-hour flight might come with a soundtrack of screaming baby.Collection: Baby
Once given, a gift is yours to use, store or dispose of as you see fit.Collection: Use
You don't want to be with someone who is already not getting from you what he needs emotionally.Collection: Needs
Unfortunately, I think the expectation is that birthday girls don't pay.Collection: Girl
For me, the greatest source of frustration was trying to work with a willful child when there was something else I wanted - say, to get the child to go to bed so I could have my own time. Just the promise of the time, and feeling that promise slip away, was enough to introduce a whole other element of stress into the encounter.Collection: Children
There is a difference between your parents' not reporting to you everything they do and keeping secrets from you.Collection: Keeping Secrets
Some people can work amid chaos or conversations, and some can't - and while there's no doubt an element of brain wiring to it, there's also the possibility of acquiring skills that improve your focus.Collection: Skills
When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.Collection: People
The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don't think anyone with any other weight to carry is going to get to same kind of sympathy - except perhaps people who lose a child.Collection: Children
I have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children.Collection: Children
Separating is not divorcing. Please keep that in mind. It is, instead, the second step in seeing if there's a better way to manage your family.Collection: Mind
When you are stuck in a group of people who merely trade turns at talking about themselves instead of actually conversing, it could be a matter of their not really knowing how to converse as opposed to being too small-minded or excessively Facebooked.Collection: Talking
I think we'd all hate to be the one who gets declared undateable by one's entire grad-school population based on a couple of told and retold stories.Collection: Couple
I believe in innocence until there's proof of guilt and all that.Collection: Believe
First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.Collection: Groups
Don't freight your answers with any notions of what you're "supposed" to do, and just see where your feelings point you. It can feel weird to be so formal about it, but if you're not used to doing it, then there's no shame in retraining yourself.Collection: Feelings
Being highly invested and preoccupied by an emotionally consuming mission tends to steal resources from other aspects of your emotional life.Collection: Emotional
I'm not a big fan of the white lie.Collection: Lying
There's nothing like a good family when you're really up a tree.Collection: Tree