By Dr. D. N. Parkerson Note: This article is very graphic in description and may not be pleasant to read, but it is important and helpful (especially for older folks like me). I personally use Bowtrol, the product displayed below. Every few years there seems to be a time of …
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This was submitted by a guy who purchased his lovely wife a small, pink "Pocket Taser" for their anniversary...
Children See. Children Do.
This is a powerful ad campaign to show adults that children will mimic what they see... especially from people who are supposed to be their role models.
Australia’s National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, launched this thought-provoking television/cinema campaign in 2009. Watch this movie and, if it moves you, share it will others... especially with those who have children .
The Dreams
By Akiane Kramarik, child-prodigy
The Child Writes of the Narrow Road.
Few are the ones finding it.
Drawing Heaven
Akiane Kramarik, Child-prodigy
I caught a video on YouTube about a CNN report showcasing the story of a very gifted 12-year-old artist named Akiane Kramarik. There have been several young gifted artists in the past, but Akiane is rather fascinating.
What makes Akiane so unique is not so much how well she paints, but the subject of her work and her inspiration. When she was 4 she had many visions of meeting God. He told her that she needs to paint and help the less fortunate. He also noted that he’d be there to guide her along the way.
Read More »Aristotle Quotes
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy.
Read More »Someday
SOMEDAY, when the kids are grown, life will be different. The memo pad on my refrigerator door will read, "Afternoon at hairdresser," or, "browse through art gallery," or, "start golf lessons"... instead of, "pediatrician at 2:00," or, "Cub Pack Meeting.
Please, Just Listen!
It’s a service to self and others By Joan C. Curtis YOU MAY THINK THAT YOU ARE a great listener, and yet be guilty of “listening” but not hearing? You may even fake listening and reply with a response or solution designed to shut the person up. When a person …
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Education Quotes
"It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be wiser than others, if you can, but do not tell them so." -- Lord Chesterfield
"Teachers affect eternity. They never know where their influence stops." -- Henry Adams
"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth." -- Diogenes Laertius
"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity." -- Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)
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