Tag: children
group name: slicesoflife
|
April 06, 2008 05:25 PM EDT --
When I was eight years old, I was still wetting the bed. It was an embarrassing problem and my parents got tired of getting up in the middle of the night to change my bedding and my pajamas. They put . . .
more
|
|
November 02, 2009 05:56 PM EST --
Role Modeling: Children are Taught By Example
Today’s psychology subject is role modeling, in other words being taught by example. It is a big area and includes many areas of research. . . .
more
|
|
August 06, 2008 07:46 PM EDT --
Today we had the young ones with us for the day. Lili (the 6 year old) returned this past Sunday from an extended trip to spend time with Mimi, her other grandmother. Ari (the 2 year old) had returned . . .
more
|
|
January 04, 2007 01:05 AM EST --
Last night I had the pleasure of observing a three-year-old child in its natural habitat, and I was interested to see her exhibit two behaviors I wish more people carried into adulthood:
1) Unaffected . . .
more
|
|
January 16, 2007 08:13 PM EST --
My son, 12, invited six friends to attend his birthday party. I made the invitations, hand-wrote Who, What, When, Where, Why, Pizza and Cake! I added careful script, respondez, s'il vous plait, our . . .
more
|
|
September 06, 2006 02:46 PM EDT --
My favorite skirt ripped last night as my son, 11, helped me take the clothes off the twisted rope hanging across my backyard. It caught on the rough tin edge of the garden shed as I swung it from line . . .
more
|
|
December 26, 2006 12:22 AM EST --
We celebrate Christmas Eve - a tradition that started out of emotional necessity when I was divorced and the children had to go to their Dad's on Christmas morning. After a depressing and disasterous . . .
more
|
|
June 15, 2006 10:35 PM EDT --
On June 28th, my grandsons will attend their last day of school for this year. Two months loom ahead when, after the first week or two, they will be bored out of their minds.
Since I care for my grandsons . . .
more
|
|
December 22, 2006 05:35 AM EST --
I was finally on the delivery table. Relief was in sight. This would be my third son. I had a sono-gram the day before, the doctor had said ,'Its another boy, i see his plumbing'. . . .
more
|
|
September 08, 2006 06:15 PM EDT --
In honor of Star Trek's 40th Birthday, I want to post a little story of something that happened at my youngest son's school last year:
Hey, Klingons have feelings, too!
I got a call from the . . .
more
|
|
May 11, 2006 05:41 PM EDT --
North Alabama Weather Report, Physical Therapy, and People Watching
This morning in North Alabama I awoke to the brilliant sunshine penetrating through my grimy windows. It broke into multiple beams . . .
more
|
|
October 09, 2006 09:59 PM EDT --
My mother likes to tell a story about a disagreement she had with me when I was at that difficult age between two and three. Unlike many children, I was never a thrower of tantrums, but I . . .
more
|
|
June 25, 2006 09:43 PM EDT --
rarely do we play on the road-side of our house. we're always by the lake. of course! who wouldn't choose to be by water? still, lillie wants to ride her bike on the road sometimes. her bike is . . .
more
|
|
August 05, 2006 05:52 PM EDT --
We live in a neighbourhood with lots of children. The other day as I was coming home from work we drove down one of the side crescents and I noticed a group of children playing in one of the yards. . . .
more
|
|
September 23, 2006 08:50 PM EDT --
Today I showed houses for several hours to the parents of beloved past clients; the parents are planning to move up from California. I picked the parents up at the home of the clients, . . .
more
|
|
July 10, 2006 10:45 PM EDT --
time flies. i cannot believe lillie's 4 now. we celebrated her birthday last week, while we were at the cottage. what a glorious day for her! it was perfect - swimming, playing, digging in the . . .
more
|
|
June 19, 2006 10:37 PM EDT --
For months Sean declined invitations from friends. He chose the places he went very carefully. He spent almost nothing. He loved spending time with his friends, but he couldn't do . . .
more
|
|
August 04, 2006 08:05 AM EDT --
I had serious Avon Apathy this late summer. Sure, I knocked on doors, left satin smooth brochures and samples of beauty promise on beach cottage porches, under doormats, stuffed behind screen doors, balanced . . .
more
|
|
October 11, 2006 11:57 PM EDT --
Every October 12, as the Blue Angels fly over the city, I remember the day you came into the world. People would have paid money for our spectacular view that day. We were at University of California San . . .
more
|
|
November 30, 2006 11:27 PM EST --
as you well know, princesses must be well-dressed...preferably in silky fabrics, sequined overlays, tiny straps, and bows. pink metallic shoes, or ballet slippers?
today, lillie got a special present . . .
more
|
|
|
|
