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This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cTalking about politics at our family gatherings can be like smoking a cigarette at a gas station\u2014there\u2019s a good chance it will make the whole place explode,\u201d the journalist Elizabeth Harris wrote last year. So she tried to approach these conversations like a reporter: \u201cI wasn\u2019t looking to have a back-and-forth; I was looking for information. I wanted to know what they thought and why.\u201d<\/p>\n Politics isn\u2019t the only topic that can feel impossible to discuss. Families struggle to talk about their history, about what they need from one another, about the things they regret or haven\u2019t forgiven one another for. The holidays can sometimes feel like the powder keg Harris described, where everyone is trying to avoid saying the wrong thing. But maybe there\u2019s another way. Today\u2019s newsletter explores how to approach even the hardest family conversations.<\/p>\n On Family Conversations<\/strong><\/p>\n The Questions We Don\u2019t Ask Our Families but Should<\/p>\n By Elizabeth Keating<\/p>\n Many people don\u2019t know very much about their older relatives. But if we don\u2019t ask, we risk never knowing our own history. (From 2022<\/em>)<\/p>\n Read the article.<\/p>\n How to Not Fight With Your Family About Politics<\/p>\n By Elizabeth Harris<\/p>\n This holiday, ask questions like a reporter.<\/p>\n Read the article.<\/p>\n Why We Speak More Weirdly at Home<\/p>\n By Kathryn Hymes<\/p>\n When people share a space, their collective experience can sprout its own vocabulary, known as a familect<\/em>. (From 2021<\/em>)<\/p>\n Read the article.<\/p>\n Still Curious?<\/p>\n Other Diversions<\/p>\n PS<\/p>\n Courtesy of Karen P.<\/p>\n I recently asked readers to share a photo of something that sparks their sense of awe in the world. Today\u2019s submission is from Karen P., who describes her view of \u201clife in retirement at Sunrise Beach in Marshfield, Massachusetts.\u201d<\/p>\n I\u2019ll continue to feature your responses in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n \u2014 Isabel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. \u201cTalking about politics at our family gatherings can be like smoking a cigarette at a gas station\u2014there\u2019s a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[7498,2645,2906,13037],"class_list":{"0":"post-36234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-approach","9":"tag-discussions","10":"tag-family","11":"tag-hardest"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}