With Halloween coming up soon, many of us are turning our attention to what we (or, more likely, our kids) want to dress up as for Trick-or-Treating. While it’s always fun to go as a Disney princess or an Avenger, making your own creative costume is a great way to spend quality time together as […]
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But beyond all that, stories do three things and they do them very effectively: they build vocabulary; they help children become better at predicting sequences and patterns; and they help a child develop leadership. Thus, a child who hears stories, whether they’re read out loud or told in a darkened bedroom, is a more successful
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Here are some tips to make the day more pleasant for everyone involved. Phone Numbers There are a few ways to make sure you’ll be notified immediately if your child gets lost in the park. 1. Liquid Bandaid Liquid Bandaid is you friend. Write your number on your child’s arm or hand in Sharpie and
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Whether you’re hiring a professional photographer or doing it yourself, here are some tips for a nice family photo you will be happy to send out. It’s all about location, background, light, poses, and having fun. Be relaxed. The picture is supposed to represent your family, not a bunch of random people standing together tensely.
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Brand awareness is an important principle in business and marketing. People focus tremendous time and dollars to manage their brand to establish loyal consumers and reap large profits. It requires a vision, a positive mission, and adherence to true values. The brand becomes sacred and, if intelligent and wise, a company will educate its entire
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Recently I encountered a phenomenon all too familiar from my decades of experience in education. One of my undergraduate students approached me for advice concerning her younger sister whom she described as a “poor” and “unmotivated reader.” As it happened, the 9-year-old herself came to my class the following week and I talked to
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This month my wife and I are celebrating our twentieth anniversary. “Celebrate” comes from a Latin root that means “to sing the praises of” and “to practice often.” At a time when the US divorce rate for first marriages hovers around 50 percent, I can say, with humility and great gratitude, that my wife and
You reach over to your herb cabinet to sprinkle some rosemary onto the chicken you are sautéing. You pick up the bottle and it springs up in your hand due to the lack of weight within it. Someone used all the rosemary and left the empty bottle in the cabinet as a queue to you
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To a child, going to the hospital is akin to visiting a foreign land. The building doesn’t look like home. It doesn’t smell like home either. The food tastes funny, and many of the grownups wear weird clothes. To top it off, doctors frequently come in the room and ask to look at their private
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When my wife was recovering from her battle with breast cancer I made extra effort to talk with her and find out how she was feeling. I would listen to her with added focus trying to to pick up on what she was going through so I could make her as comfortable as possible. We
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