1. Strengthens conscience and awareness of the right thing to do. 2. Promotes respect for differences. 3. Increases personal responsibility. 4. Helps kids see how choices not only effect them, but also their class, school, and family. 5. Helps kids understand ethics and morality. 6. Provides a reference point for all discipline problems. 7. Facilitates… Read more »
Dear son, When I was a teenager I wished, just as you do now, that my dad could be my best friend. However, it wasn’t until my time to be a father came up, when I really understood why my wish would never come true. And it wasn’t that my dad didn’t want to be… Read more »
1. Take time to share your vision for their life. 2. Elevate your child to perform at a higher responsible level by seeing them as responsible and capable. 3. Ask your child about their own expectations and their vision for their own life. 4.Talk about the consequences for making poor choices. You can give them… Read more »
Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle. – Orlando A. Battista
Eric Graham knows all too well that when kids go online for the first time, the freedom of the cyberworld can seem intoxicating. When he got on the Net four years ago, “it was the first time I was given complete power over something – I could do whatever I wanted, and there was no… Read more »
When I arrived to collect my 7-year-old from her after-school program the other day, many youngsters were gathered on the playing field to admire a fabulous rainbow arching across the sky. After a while, the rainbow faded. The children and the after-school teachers turned around and returned to their regularly scheduled activities. In a similar… Read more »
Education is not just getting a degree to have the chance to do something, but also to have the chance to be someone. – Thalia Arawi
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. – Henry Ford
Lately we have been seeing more attention given to the potential for cheating on the Internet. Cheating on papers in college is nothing new. We can think of more than one famous person whose work was later discovered to be plagiarized to one degree or another. However, the ease of use the World Wide Web… Read more »
A water bearer had two large pots, each hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of these pots had a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water at the end of a long walk from the stream to… Read more »
