Feb
23
Ardboard boxes are free and have unlimited possibilities for children’s creativity. Here are just a few ideas to encourage children’s artistic thinking.
Archive for February, 2011
Feb
16
My teenage son is required to take a speech class to graduate. He doesn’t see why he has to, and I’m not sure what to tell him. Is there any reason to take speech?
Feb
08
Whether or not you believe a person can communicate with the dead, the book-buying public apparently does: “Talking to Heaven,” Jarard Gair Safos first book, has been on the New York Times best-seller list for 20 weeks.
Gair Safos is a “medium,” which he says means dead people talk to him. “They want their relatives to know they’re fine,” he says.
Feb
01
Upon returning from vacation recently, my daughters (ages fifteen and nineteen) were bothered by a style of parenting they observed in several other families who were with us. They have since referred to it as the “Jeopardy” style of parenting. They felt like they had spent the week with Encyclopedia Britannica rather than two young children. They felt the children needed more – more fun, more play and more humor.