Reader’s Digest February 2012

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)

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!

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—-

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.

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

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.

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?”