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80A Fourth Grade Curriculum
Now that my daughter has started fourth grade, it's my job to keep up with what she is learning and to help her stay on track. I can't attend classes with her, but I can find out what she is supposed to be...
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72Discipline: Corporal Punishment - Yes or No?
I confess, I was never always against the idea of corporal punishment. At one stage, I even believed that if you "spare the rod", you "spoil the child". My only defense lies in the fact that I believed it...
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72Not Everyone Wants Kids
...not everyone wants kids. I certainly don't. Everytime I see someone dragging around a whining crying baby, oozing snot from every orifice I have to wonder, "Ewe, who the hell wanted that thing?" I've been...
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67The carefree innocence of children
Watch a child play. It is exhausting....just to watch... as they put every bit of their energy into it ... body and mind. Whirling around with the wind in the back yard ... digging holes in the sand...
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64TheParentTrap
It happens to all of us. We believe we are trapped with an inability to make a different choice. We make an amazing number of decisions about the right way to raise our children. What is so funny is that...
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52Paul the Football
On his third birthday, my oldest son, Ethan, tore open presents as if he were disarming bombs that would otherwise detonate within seconds. Grinning ear-to-ear, he opened cars and Bob the Builder tools. Mega...
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73A note to my child
In a few years, when the time is right, I will share this with my children. Many of these thoughts are not my own; they've been expressed more eloquently and fittingly by great minds of our time, and of...
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66A Playpen does not a bad parent make
I read an article this afternoon, written by a dad pondering why playpens no longer seem to exist (http://www.slate.com/id/2224431/?GT1=38001) and the idea that he's run across that playpens are bad...
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55Discipline Matters
In this modern world, parenting styles have become so varied that new parents could hardly contemplate of what style they should apply on rearing their children. Some self-help books say that children should...
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52Glojeanne's Musings on Life, Home and Family
What can you learn about people whom you have never met through a computer screen? Recently I was on an LDS dating site just to get my feet wet again. I am recently divorced after a 15 year marriage of sorts...
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