On Sundays… When you plan the week, heed this Simple Secret to Family Sanity: “Don’t add More to Enough.” On Mondays… If you want your kids to develop good eating habits, make it easy to eat healthy food and hard to eat junk. So buy potato chips and junk munchies seldom, and when you have [...]
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Being A Better Parent…One Week at a Time – March
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged being a better parent on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Update
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 100th birthday on January 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A few days after my October 5 post, my computer crashed. It’s still not back to running the way I need to have it run, but there’s a Plan in the works to fix all that. While recovering from The Crash, we had our Big Party. Grandma Powers turned 100 on December 5. Grandma’s party [...]
Being a Better Parent…One Week at a Time
Posted in Uncategorized on September 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
For eight years I wrote a short parenting tips column for The El Paso Scene. The column featured one tip for each day of the week, and I tried to give parents a balance of tips that would address their own priorities & attitudes as well as their children’s physical, social, intellectual and spiritual development. [...]
Secrets in the Salt
Posted in Uncategorized on August 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nova Science Now aired a segment July 28 that shows some just-for-the-curiosity-of-it research that my husband Dennis did in collaboration with some Utah profs. You can also see more of Dennis’ work at the Kansas Underground Salt Museum in Hutchinson, KS where the KUSM folks set up a special exhibit. The museum is definitely worth seeing if [...]
Friendship
Posted in Uncategorized on June 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Speaking of my friend Lee reminds me of a poem on friendship that my mom used to quote when I was a teen. Today I went online to see who wrote it and discovered that it is a quotation from George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) [1819-1880]. Apparently it was not originally written as a poem, [...]
All the Blessings of the Light
Posted in Uncategorized on June 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is a wonderful old hymn that I like to use to put myself to sleep at night. It was written by Thomas Ken (1637-1711) and is the source of the Doxology that we sing in church to the tune of Old Hundredth (see final verse). It is also sung to the Tallis Canon, which [...]
Pinecone Art, Crummy Neighborhoods, and Other Elements of a Successful Reading Lesson
Posted in enrichment, home schooling, reading, teaching kids, teens, Uncategorized, tagged art, conversation partner, crummy neighborhood, fancy cake, makeshift sandbox, pinecones, reading lesson, reluctant reader, safe place, Southwest Homeschool Network, trust, Vatos on April 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Southwest Homeschool Network asked me to give a presentation for parents of Reluctant Readers for their conference last weekend. I don’t live with a reluctant reader anymore (he turned into a book-lover, grew up and left home) so I am lucky to have one who comes and visits me to remind me all about [...]
