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Author :: Karyl Chastain Beal  |
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| Article Title :: The Theme from MASH - Suicide is Not Painless |
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| The Theme from MASHI flipped the button on the remote control, pausing mindlessly at each channel to see the picture on the screen; I could not motivate myself to do anything else. I had worked all day and was too tired to move. I needed to do something that would require no expenditure of energy, no time to feel.
Because feeling hurts.All of a sudden, the theme from the old television show, MASH, rang out of the screen. I looked up to see Hawkeye and and Hotlips laughing together as the show began.I froze.I could not press the button to switch the channel. I could not turn it off.I felt my heart slowly and coldly sinking down inside my body. The music (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Richard Chapo |
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| Article Title :: The Secret To Keeping Kids Interested on Family Vacations |
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| Vacations and trips are great family events, but how do you keep kids interested and busy during the down times? Have them keep journals of the trips and their impressions.Writing JournalsTake a minute to give some consideration to your most recent family vacation. Where there periods of time when you wished you kids would pay more attention to what was going on? Its natural for kids attention to wonder. In these days of the Internet and video games, the average child seems to have an attention span of about 30 seconds.For many kids, the only way to truly get their attention on a family trip is to get them involved. The best method for doing this is to give them a jou (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Ronald Springer |
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| Article Title :: MORAL ARMOR'S Irrational Parenting, Part I |
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| "If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is “God is crying.” And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is, “Probably because of something you did.”"—Jack HandeyMy view on parenting holds one key premise in mind: that every decent parent should assure that upon leaving the nest, their kids can fly! So herein lies a critique against the attributes which make this crucial moral obligation impossible.The Wrong Decision.Stupid men and stupid women are dysfunctional on their own. They are dysfunctional together. Their answer to fix everything? More people. Babies are the one gigantic liability people can assume (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Karyl Chastain Beal |
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| Article Title :: Where Is Your Homework, Lisa? |
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| Is Homework Really That Important?Dear Friends,I no longer teach in public schools, but for what seems like 100 years, I did. During my long career, I did the best I knew how to do at the time, based on where I was in life, and what I had learned about teaching.In parenting and teaching both, however, we sometimes learn things too late. If only I could go back, I would do many things differently. One thing I would handle differently would be homework.Today, I?m going to address an issue that raises the hair on the heads of many people: Homework. Homework is so revered in our culture that to oppose it can almost result in being one declared a heretic.I?m (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Jeff Herring |
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| Article Title :: Parenting Your Teenager: How to Build Trust |
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| ``Mom, can I go to the mall with my friend Jenny?''``No, not after you came home late last night.''``Well, everyone else gets to.''``I don't care what everybody else gets to do; you can't.''``You just don't trust me.''``You've got to earn it.''``I have.''``No, you haven't.''``Have, too.''``Have not.''SLAM! Etc.If the above conversation sounds familiar, you're probably the parent of a teen-ager.I especially like the ``everybody else gets to do it'' line. My parents' response was, ``If everyone else stood on their heads in the middle of the street at 3 a.m. in their underwear, would you?'' I probably would h (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Jeff Herring |
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| Article Title :: Parenting Your Teenager: 7 Tips for Back to School Success |
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| Blink. That's all we did, blink, and summer is ending and a new school year is beginning.Parents have mixed emotions. Relief that the kids are going back and dread that another school year, and the battles that come with it, is right around the corner.Here are tips for a successful school year for students and parents.Tips for StudentsGet a good start. If you start out behind, you dig a hole that you will spend the rest of the year digging out of, if at all.Get a good finish. Even more important than getting a good start is getting a good finish. Keep doing the positive things you began the year and semester doing. Follow through and finish well.D (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Jean Tracy |
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| Article Title :: Build Character with this Delicious Triple A Recipe! |
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| Vinegar or honey, what do kids really want? “Toys, candy, and their own way,” answer millions of parents.They say you can catch more flies with a spoonful of honey than with a cupful of vinegar. So why do too many toys, too much candy, and constantly giving in to our children, create sour little characters? Aren’t these the ingredients for honey?Let’s consider the most delicious ingredients: what kids really want and how to give it to them. The Triple A Recipe for honey – attention, appreciation, and affection are delicious, powerful, and bonding.Children thirst for your positive attention. Cheering them o (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Jeff Herring |
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| Article Title :: Parenting Your Teenager: 4 Dangerous Myths |
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| MYTH: All teens have to rebel, and the teen years will be miserable years for a family.REALITY: Teens do have to separate from their parents and families. That's good - otherwise kids would be living at home when they are 35.They do, however, have to earn the privilege of being in charge.MYTH: Once teens rebel, you have lost them forever.REALITY: This is the fear of every parent, but it doesn't happen in most cases. As the proverb says, "Raise up a child in the way they should go, and when they are old they will not depart from it."Two very important factors are implied here:1) At some point, it is likely they could "depart" from what you have tau (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Jeff Herring |
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| Article Title :: Parenting Your Teenager: 3 More Dangerous Myths |
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| MYTH: If you have not parented as well as you would have liked up until now, it's too late to try anything different.REALITY: This is one of those seductive little lies that sounds so close to the truth.But it's not.Even if you gave up being in charge of your kids long ago, it's still not too late to parent in a different way.They won't like it at first, but you don't need their permission, and you never did.You can, over time, get their cooperation.MYTH: Parents must be in control at all times.REALITY: Well, yes and no.If you are asking me if parents need to be in charge of the family at all times, then absolutely yes.If you (read full article) |
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| Category :: Parenting Articles |
Author :: Jeff Herring |
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| Article Title :: Back to School Success Tips |
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| Q. With the school year just beginning, what can we do as parents to help make this a successful year for our teen-ager and our family?A. Fortunately, there are many things you can do to make this a successful school year, not just for your teen, but for the whole family as well.In general, the first thing to keep in mind is that parents and teens have a very different notion about the purpose of school. Here's how I believe it works: For parents, the perception is that we work all day, the kids don't. School is their job. Therefore, they should get good grades, just as we want to do well on our jobs.The perception of teen-agers is quite different. In their view, scho (read full article) |
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