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Reader’s Digest February 2012

Extras and highlights from the current issue of Reader's Digest magazine

Extras and highlights from the current issue of Reader’s Digest magazine

EDITOR’S NOTE

Reader’s Digest Editor-in-Chief Liz Vaccariello on her new job, Michigan football and a father’s love.

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Your Comments

  • Ned Threatt

    This is the worst site I have ever visited. I am a RD customer and somehow I missed the Feb. issue and I have been trying to find the department where the celebrity quotes (or wise words are) and I cannot get to it anyway ,shape or form. I am totally confused that you wouldn’t have a way to get to it from your site. All I have been able to get to is nothing I want to see. It seems pretty odd to me that you only want people to see what you want them to see and nothing else.

    Sincerely
    Ned Threatt 

    • Ljknoll

      You are too much of a threat. You are angry.

  • Shiraz Ali Charania

    I agree with Ned Thratt. The first thing I look for in RD is “Quotable Quotes” and it is missing! If you do not have it in current issue, give some past one or letus have choice to select from the topics on which quotes are available.

    Sincerely
    Shiraz Ali Charania(SAC)

  • Shiraz Ali Charania

    I agree with Ned Thratt. The first thing I look for in RD is “Quotable Quotes” and it is missing! If you do not have it in current issue, give some past one or letus have choice to select from the topics on which quotes are available.

    Sincerely
    Shiraz Ali Charania(SAC)

  • emory griffis

    i really enjoy reader’s digest! as a child, it was the first magazine that i took an interest in and the only magazine my family constantly subscribed to. that interest continues 45 year’s later and i read every issue cover to cover-there is always something good to read!

  • Hengkoklaiy

    I not have any contets what you send me letter i is winner? Please dont send me another letter thank you

  • Shirleyadams

    Concerning the mouthy mother-in-law

    Apparently any attempts to bring this woman down to reason in the past by her family has not worked. My advise, as a mother-in-law is to tell her to back off and be’ firm’ about it. Trying to make lite of the situation will not work, it just gives her more substance—-

  • RobertBayt

    I am responding to Ask Laskas’s “Give Your Best Advice” column in the February 2013 Reader’s Digest issue.  The mother-in- law’s style of communicating keeps people emotionalloy at a distance. It is a control mechanism. She has a fear of becoming emotionally close and thus vulnerable. The best way of dealing with this type of person is turning around her criticism and complaints with a response that is positive by asking  her what is her suggestion to address the complaint or criticism. In other words. what can be done differently?  Some complaints or criticisms may have a kernel of merit at times. But, the key is to not get defensive and react with anger or openly disagree with her. That’s what she wants you to do. Make her give pause to think about what might be a solution to the complaint or criticism.

  • guest

    I can’t locate the article the February issue “13 Things Facebook Won’t Tell You.” It referred readers to this site for more insider tips. Tried using the Search box and scrolling. Not a very user friendly website/or the article didn’t get posted.

  • Jerryjboyle

    my reply to” give  your best advice” is for her to say “If you think your daughter- in – law is bad, you should meet my mother- in – law.

  • Racella Sieberg

    FAMILY DIGEST: PRESENT FOR MY FUTURE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW (p.46-February 2013 Issue)
    I was moved by this article because it reminded me of ourselves when our two sons were still at home.  We did not wait until their late high school years but began as soon as they could walk.  Very benignly they learned to pick up their rooms, put away their toys, and generally take care of their stuff. What began as bathroom manners and cleanup finally came to the kitchen/dinning area.  We began by making cookies together.  This graduated to making real “from scratch” macaroni and 3-4 cheese casserole, cleaning up the counters, and stacking the dishwasher.  By the time they both went to the Army and the Marine Corps, they both could do regular housework, laundry, cook/bake, manage a large yard, and do ordinary things to their and our cars: lube job, and oil change. They both love camping, fishing, golfing, and hunting. The thing was planned by us and it seemed to work. We wanted our sons to leave home as full integrated human beings. They became very good men and wonderful husbands/fathers/uncles. They love books, electronic gadgets, and their own young families. They were both very good students. They took and used their music lessons so that they played both in orchestra and band.  They both sang in their high school concert choirs.  I could go on and on but that would be overkill! One other thing. . .they both were raised and confirmed in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.  So they left home with all the tools for life that we could supply.I love this story by Marcia Desantis.   Every parent should begin by remembering that children grow up quickly. . .90% of their lives will be lived as adults in a real, sometimes unfriendly, world. So we must begin early so that they will be prepared. Both my daughter-in-laws love me and have thanked me because my sons, their husbands, pitch in and are unashamed to cook a meal, care for their child, or use a mop. Everyone should praise Marcia for her courage to be a dutiful mom. Marcia, I am proud of you. Thanks.Sincerely, Racella SiebergWeed, CaliforniaA Reader’s Digest Fan since 1972

  • Pjsimmons

    “Distressed Daughter-in-Law”  Politely tell her  that there seems to be several things have come up in conversations that she thinks you need to improve on, telling her that’s how you are feeling expressing it’s important to you to hear whatever she feels needs your attention.  It’s better to go right to the issue and by putting her on the spot, she may back down considering she may just be feeling less important as she was being your husband mother.

    Patricia J. Simmons

  • Pjski21

    Your Feb. issue says to go to this site to “give your best advice’ – but this is an impossible site that provides no marker for following up on your published dilema.   There’s lots of garbage on here, but nothing worth wasting time on.

  • Sunny3h

    re:ask laskas/distressed daughter-in-law:

    been there;done that for almost 20 years. my husband,s mom was a superficial snob who treated me like she
    didn’t think i was good enough for her son. the important thing to remember, though, is that we both love
    him and both of uf us are in his life for keeps! try to use that common ground to bridge the gap or you might make him so miserable thaat you could both lose him. (remember the movie “Monster-In-Law?)
    If you try to befriend her for his sake, there might be a surprisingly happy outcome.

  • Chuckers

    Regarding Distressed Daughter-In-Law:
    Looks like she’s gotten away with this for far too long – and half of that is likely your fault. Match the energy, and match the sentiment, but don’t be rude.
    How about something like: “Well I’ll be damned; whatdya say that for?”