Perspectives

Dear Heloise: The reader who suggested hitting a jar with a knife handle was correct, but tapping is a better word. I tried to teach a co-worker at a deli how to open large pickle jars. Two days later, I was called in to work at 6:30 a.m. unexpectedly. My coworker was taken to the hospital after she wacked a jar and cut her hand on broken glass. She didn’t understand that I tapped the lid. Or I use a bottle opener to ease the pressure and break the airtight seal. --AReader, in Richmond, Virginia SENDAGREAT HINT TO: Heloise@Heloise.com

Well new year, new me. A good saying to remember this coming year by Theodore Roosevelt “do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are”. That is a direct contradiction to what I mostly hear, “the world is a miserable place and there’s nothing I can do about It”. How about some New Year’s resolutions that you can actually keep to some extent. Social Scientists say most of these resolutions are abandoned after two weeks.

Post-holiday blues can be as challenging as the holiday blues in children, adolescents, and adults. A National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) study shows that one in six children between the ages of six and 17 have experienced a mental health disorder each year, while one in five adults experience mental illness each year.