In Ladies home Journal, a woman asked, "My mother just died. How do i tell my young kids ages 4 and 5 that their grandmother is dead?"

The advice... "First of all, never tell your young kids that grandma is jsut sleeping.... they will either be afraid to go to sleep, or eventually wonder why all grandma does is sleep, and will find something really wrong with her sleeping all the time, because kids are growing up faster these days, and can handle a lot more than parents give them credit for. they may permananntly even distrust you for not telling them the the truth, even though they are at young ages.... Just tell them that Grandma is no longer living, but keep them in their memories and in their hearts......

In Redbook, a woman wrote that she and a guy she met years ago fell madly in love and were serious, but he moved away to another state, and they haven't seen each other in four years, but they kept in touch over phones, emails, and letters... she says that her mind says she should let him go, but something in her soul and heart tell her that he is the one for her and she asked for advice.....

I was expecting some sappy advice, since the woman said that her sould told her that he was the one for her, but the advice was kind of stern.... The advice was, 'Get over him! You haven't seen him in four years! Get some hobbies that will get your mind off of him!" My mouth was like, :eek: When i read the advice... i was expecting, something sappy, such as "of course he is the right one for you because your heart and your soul tell you so..."

In a book for teenagers, a gay boy tells the advisor, 'My straight female friend knows that I am gay, but keeps trying to force me to be straight so that i will date her.... She keeps trying to kiss me and wears revelaing clothes and wears pretty makeup and flirts with me so that i will like her, but I am gay... i just don't like girls that way, and she knows it.... She just tries to hard to make me like her.... She is a good friend, but I feel bad because she is trying to change our platonic friendship into an impoosible boyfriend/girlfiend relationship, and I don't like that. i want to keep being her friend, but she is bothering me with this. What should I do?

The advice was, "Just tell her to stop trying to force you to like her that way..... Tell her that you just won't change who you are and don't want to anyway, just to be her boyfriend..... tell her that you value her friendship a lot, you just don't like her, or any girl that way.... She should understand........