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What You Can Do For Your Country

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What you can do for your country to improve its future. John Kennedy made a famous statement, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”. We probably all agree that it Read more…

Rainy Days

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Most people dislike rainy days but I love them. Today is a rainy day here, but the weather is not dragging me down. I love rainy days! Why do I love the days that most people do not like? First, Read more…

“FEAR”–Face Everything and Rise

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There is a time to stay out of harm’s way, and a time to “FEAR”– face everything and rise! My definition of fear is “face everything and rise”. Until I was almost four years old, I heard loud violent arguing Read more…

Empower a Teased Child to Rise Above

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Empower a teased child to cope emotionally. As a child, I was teased mercilessly. I was small for my age. I appeared to be several years younger than my actual age. My ears were large. It took me years to Read more…

Help a Child Soar

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Some simple ways you can enable a child to soar like an eagle over life’s storms. You can enable a child to soar like an eagle over life’s storms regardless of your finances. Read to a child Reading to a Read more…

Saying No to Drugs

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Resiliency comes from love. Both resiliency and love enable a child to say no to drugs. Every child can say be strong enough to say no to drugs. Even though I grew up in a dysfunctional home, I still said no Read more…

About Good Judgment

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Strategies for teaching your child to use good judgment. We all know that children must learn to use good judgment to be successful. But how do we teach children to do this? Research shows that treating your child kindly from birth Read more…

Give a Child a Dream

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Give a child success by giving him a dream. My Grandma gave me many tools that have enabled me to soar above the many storms in my life: she gave me a growth mindset (“Success Part One: Think to be Read more…

A Child’s Ten Commandments to Parents by Dr. Kevin Leman

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A message to all parents from a child. Parents, read this as though your child is speaking to you… My hands are small; please don’t expect perfection when I make a bed, draw a picture, or throw a ball. My Read more…

Reading with a Child

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Reading with your child is one of the most important things you can do with your child. The Reading Mother Strickland Gillilan I had a Mother who read to me Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea, Cutlasses clinched in Read more…