“If you want the rainbow in life, you gotta be willing to put up with the rain!” “If we really want to live, we’d better start at once to try!” Sometimes, patience, perseverance and time are the simplest ingredients to achieving your personal success. If you really think about it, most great achievements weren’t born… Read more »
“Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.” – Tryon Edwards
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
After working as a clinical psychologist for more than thirty-one years, I retired to begin my second career as a children’s author. So far I have written three children’s values books and, as much as I love writing my books, what I love even more are my visits to the classrooms where the students and… Read more »
In a Values in Action! Classroom you will observe kids openly taking positions on various kinds of ethical dilemmas. You’re invited to have your class participate by taking a position on these issues and giving a rationale for your position. All kids are required to take a position and present their rationale. Invite your class… Read more »
“Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful — a thought that is love.” – Mary Manin Morrissey
Book Review Here’s a sample of the rich content you will find in this new book “The Manipulator at Home”: The manipulator parent goes through the day offering rewards and threatening punishment, believing that this motivates children. You can have your box of animal crackers if you get out of the bathtub right now. Or,… Read more »
One gorgeous summer day my friend Matt and I were tooling around the local golf course in Omaha when Matt suggested we take a shortcut through the woods between holes seven and nine. I was the one at the helm and was reluctant at first because it had poured the night before and sometimes I… Read more »
Respect each other every day, In what you do and what you say. Show each other that you care, When they need help you’re always there. – Unknown
“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.” – Henry Ward Beecher
