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
First Grade African saying- “If the fingers of the hand quarrel you cannot pick up the spoon.” I use this with my students to demonstrate the importance of cooperation. I invite them to draw faces on each of the fingers and tell them that the fingers were not getting along. Each one wanted to do… Read more »
“Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth … Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.” John Edgar Hoover (1895-1972), American director of FBI –… Read more »
Friday, February 24, 2006 By JENNIFER H. CUNNINGHAM HERALD NEWS Kiara Tanguis, a sixth-grader at Memorial School, said the bullying she’s endured is so hurtful that she dreads going to school every day. “It’s hard to ignore them,” the bespectacled 11-year-old said at the Home and School meeting Tuesday night in the school library. “They… Read more »
Gene Bedley mentions in his seminar the importance of training children in appropriate ways to express strong feelings. A lot of children never see the correlation or implications of harsh and triggered words. You can make a heart out of wood. Each time a child hurts your heart invite them to drive a nail into… Read more »
Dear Gene, Have to tell you a quick story about one of my kids. He’s an incredibly bright little guy — one of the smartest I’ve ever seen. But he has an equally incredibly hard time controlling his impulses. Emotional outbursts, physical outbursts, you name it, he does it. He ages out of preschool this… Read more »
Singing the Standards By: GARY BASS – For The Californian Sunday, June 18, 2006 Although Tim Bedley’s new CD, “Singin’ the Standards,” probably isn’t going platinum, it’s a big hit with his students and fellow teachers. Bedley, a third-grade teacher at Wildomar Elementary School, wrote new lyrics to familiar tunes such as “Father Abraham” and… Read more »
“Courtesy is the shortest distance between two people.” – Author Unknown
