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01 The DIL Rules—101 Tips for Making Peace with Your Mother-in-Law - Sally Shields
Mothers-in-law are the stuff comedy acts are made of, but for anyone who's suffered at the hands of their monster-in-law, it's no laughing matter. Sally Shields should know - her rocky relationship with her mother-in-law had her dreading holidays and avoiding phone calls. Things turned around for Shields when she discovered easy tricks for transforming this contentious relationship, and how a scarf and a shower curtain factored into her successful equation. Sally Shields is an author, speaker, award-winning pianist and composer. She is the recipient of the Editor's Choice Award from the International Library of Poetry, and a frequent contributor to various magazines. Winner of the 17th annual Great American Jazz Piano Competition, her first book, Modern Jazz Piano, is the standard theory manual for several music programs, including Princeton University. She performs worldwide, most recently with bestselling author and musician James McBride. Shields was a finalist in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and her music is currently featured on the ABC TV daytime drama All My Children. Her latest book is THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW RULES: 101 Surefire Ways to Manage (and Make Friends with) Your Mother-in-Law! Doug and Sally talk about how Sally learned to turn a frustrating and unhappy relationship with her mother-in-law to one of friendship and happiness. Sally’s moment of truth came when her husband told he was tired of being in the middle of the two of them. From that point on, Sally looked at every zinger that hit her as an opportunity to learn and grow.