Feature: A Helping Hand

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• A Helping Hand: What To Do With Pent Up Feelings?

  Piles of emotion will get painful just like piles of trash will get smelly. Deal with the cause so it doesn’t get worse.

  Opinion by Diana Hartman — on Mar 21, 2008

• A Helping Hand: Teasing is not a Sign of Love

  When the teaser sees you’re upset and still teases, he takes it from lighthearted to mean-spirited. In turn, he takes you from treasure to target.

  Opinion by Diana Hartman — on Mar 19, 2008

• A Helping Hand: Fearing Rejection and Abandonment

  It’s unfortunate when we define ourselves as someone who can only believe what others say about us and ignore any good we say about ourselves.

  Opinion by Diana Hartman — on Mar 14, 2008

• A Helping Hand: Success and Happiness Without Much Money

  Success is what you’ve become. Happiness is how you feel about your success.

  Opinion by Diana Hartman — on Jan 12, 2008

• A Helping Hand: The Toxic Workplace

  Employers do not have the right to subject hired employees to in-house fighting.

  Opinion by Diana Hartman — on Oct 30, 2007

• A Helping Hand: Stay-at-Home Mom Chided for Using Daycare

  Putting a child in daycare for even three days a week still leaves mom with a 144-hour workweek.

  Opinion by Diana Hartman — on Sep 20, 2007

• A Helping Hand: Moving and Missing Old Friends, School

  Moving and traveling may seem exotic and special to the kids in your new school. This is an advantage when making new friends.

  Opinion by Diana Hartman — on Sep 19, 2007

• A Helping Hand: Three Kids Under Three - Help!

  The simpler things are, the more accomplished you'll feel. They'll remember the time you spent with them, not how tidy everything was.

  Opinion by Diana Hartman — on Jul 10, 2007

• A Helping Hand: In Fear of Burglars

  Put the same amount of time and effort into abating the fear as you have into feeling the fear.

  Opinion by Diana Hartman — on Jul 03, 2007

• A Helping Hand: Illness and Physical Appearance

  Illness alters choices and may limit what you can do, but it doesn’t stop you from having or making choices.

  Opinion by Diana Hartman — on Jun 26, 2007

• A Helping Hand: Inappropriately Dressed Co-Worker

  Why do some women dress in an unprofessional way at work and then get mad when men stare?

  Opinion by Diana Hartman — on Jun 19, 2007

• A Helping Hand: Handling Life's Highs and Lows

  Use the times when you're feeling good to take care of the part of you that might feel low later.

  Opinion by Diana Hartman — on Jun 15, 2007

• A Helping Hand: Appropriate Punishment for A Child?

  It is not the heavy or the light hand that effectively disciplines a child.

  Opinion by Diana Hartman — on Jun 05, 2007

• A Helping Hand: Does He Like Me Or Not?

  While a shy or unsure man may sound like a dandy fix-it project for some women, for others it is an alarm.

  Opinion by Diana Hartman — on May 29, 2007

• A Helping Hand: Which One is Too Easy - Marriage or Divorce?

  The longer-lasting relationship speaks not just of trust and love, but also of experience with it.

  Opinion by Diana Hartman — on May 22, 2007

• A Helping Hand: My Mother Expects Too Much

  My friends say she expects a spouse's share of responsibility rather than a son's share.

  Opinion by Diana Hartman — on May 15, 2007

• A Helping Hand: My Baby Won't Sleep

  A baby who isn't the go-right-to-sleep type isn't going to become the type. Put that thought out of your head so you can move on.

  Opinion by Diana Hartman — on May 08, 2007

• A Helping Hand: Am I the Right Age?

  Living on your own will make you a new person. That new person might not care for the idea of marriage - or the man.

  Opinion by Diana Hartman — on May 01, 2007

• A Helping Hand: Friend is Abused by Her Husband

  It's worth noting your own hesitation to report it. Imagine then how desperately helpless she feels to do anything about it.

  Opinion by Diana Hartman — on Apr 24, 2007