Category: Miscellaneous

Experience is always expensive.
It is the only thing, which cannot be gained without paying the price.

Category: Childcare

Done correctly, positive feedback motivates, nurtures independence, boost self-esteem and helps set reasonable expectations for your child.
That’s why it’s important to praise children of all ages. However, the way to offer praise should differ depending on the child’s age. While it’s OK to high-five your 2-year-old when she puts her socks on for the first time, you don’t want to cheer on your 9-year-old for dressing himself.
For toddlers, positive feedback should take the form of praise for good behavior and new accomplishments. As they grow older, praise the efforts and progress they make toward
Goals.
No matter what your child’s age, offer positive feedback with these tips.
· Be sincere. Even young childe know when you are not being genuine. Instead of telling your 5-year-old, “You are the best baseball player ever!” say, “Great catch!”
· Be specific. Instead of saying, “You were good today,” single out their accomplishments. Use phrases like, “Good job cleaning your room without being asked.”
· Praise kindness as well as accomplishments. Thank children for sharing or for comforting a hurt friend.
· Pass the word. Let children hear you talking to others about their accomplishments.
· Encourage the effort. Offer positive feedback for trying, even when your child fails. When your 12-year-old practices a new skateboard trick, say, “You’re almost there! I can tell you’ve been practicing!” Sometimes a “Yeah!” or a high-five is all that’s needed.
· Counter negativity. When children become discouraged, remind them of their strengths and accomplishments.

Actions speak louder than words, so take the time to talk and play with your children. Use your time together to reinforce their strengths and encourage areas of improvement.

-- Mayo Clinic --

Category: Famous Quote

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be struck blind: Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, as if you would be struck deaf. Touch each object as if tomorrow your sense of touch would fail-smell perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell or taste again.

Helen Keller

Category: Security

A lock on a flimsy door is about as effective as locking your car door but leaving the window down.
· All outside doors should be metal or solid wood.
· If your doors don't fit tightly in their frames, install weather stripping around them.
· Install a peephole or wide angle viewer in all entry doors so you can see who is outside without opening the door. Door chains break easily and don't keep out intruders.

Category: Relationships

When we are intolerant, we are ignorant.
When we tolerate we are informed.
When we find nothing to tolerate, we are mature.

Category: Miscellaneous

Ideas are like seeds cast into the spring’s wind.
Most will end in nothing; but others will sprout, take root, grow, and eventually cast their own seeds to the wind.

Category: Interpersonal Skills

Half of our mistakes in life arise from thinking
when we ought to feel and feeling when we ought to think
- ROBERT FROST -