The Biggest Mistakes Parents Make

July 31, 2010

Those beautiful, crazy-making little creatures running amok in our homes did NOT come with a manual.
My next few entries will focus on the do’s and don’ts of parenting. I will give you the best of what I have learned about how to interact with your children in a way that can lead to greater cooperation [...]

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Assertiveness: Teaching people how to treat you.

July 28, 2010

We are taught to be nice when we are children. Women, in particular, are trained to acquiesce to the needs of others, not rock the boat, say nothing rather than be nasty…blah blah blah. We learn to swallow our voices and then we spend the rest of our lives trying to make sense of the [...]

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An Empty Inbox: Beyond Organization

July 19, 2010

It has always been one of my life-long dreams to be more organized.  My home is not a big pile of magazines and papers from years gone by…I’m not a hoarder…and it probably looks quite clean and tidy to most people, but I always seem to hang onto my right to have at least one drawer, [...]

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An Unintentional Experiment

July 14, 2010

I live on a farm. We don’t have animals or chores (beyond these three cats and their litter boxes), but we sometimes deal with things that city dwellers don’t fully comprehend. Some of the challenges include not being able to go for a peaceful walk or bike ride anytime I want (the major highway makes [...]

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The Upside of Judgement

June 30, 2010

I got shaken up a few weeks ago. I was in Port Stanley, at the Festival Theatre, and I happened to pick a random card out of the rack of greeting cards. It said (something to the effect of)…
“I abhor judgement…or maybe I would just do anything to avoid confrontation.”
Yikes! I felt another layer of [...]

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