Category: Education
-
America’s Spirit of Resilience and Restoration: The California Fires
I was inspired to write this blog after viewing CBS Sunday Morning on January 25, 2025 that described the innovative, creative ways homeowners are rebuilding their homes, making them highly fire resistant. I connected the stories shared in this segment of CBS Sunday Morning with what I believe resonates with our spirit as Americans to…
-
Using Family Virtues to Guide Your Disciplining
Many years ago, I discovered a book called The Family Virtues Guide by Linda Kavelin Popov that gave me a whole new insight on how to discipline my children using virtues rather than rules. The author states that using virtues as your disciplinary guide helps children develop character and learn how to make responsible, moral…
-
Not Everything Can Be Awesome
Many years ago, my pastor preached a sermon that has stuck with me about the use, or actually misuse, of the word “awesome.” He said that overusing it diminishes the power behind the idea of something or someone being “awesome.” Let’s begin with two definitions: As I did my research on this, I discovered that…
-
Teaching Children They Can’t Say “You Can’t Play”
In this blog I am going to share some information from a book written in 1992 that has important and relevant information for parents, caregivers, and for those who work in early childhood education or in schools. The book is entitled You Can’t Say You Can’t Play by Vivian Gussin Paley. Paley describes a phenomenon…
-
Teaching Children About Their Brains: Part Three
This is the third in a three-part series I am sharing with my readers about teaching children about their brains. I have invited my readers to consider how even young children can learn brain basics, which can be very empowering, helping them understand and manage their thoughts and feelings, including some often-challenging ones, like fear…
-
Teaching Children About Their Brains: Part Two
In my previous blog, I invited my readers to consider how even young children can learn brain basics. Their knowledge of this can be very empowering, helping them understand and manage their thoughts and feelings, including some often-challenging ones, like fear and anxiety. I suggested that parents and caregivers start with basic brain information: what…
-
How Often Do You Use “Just” in your Communication?
Here is a little food for thought with an invitation to notice how often and why you use the word “just” when communicating with others and even with yourself. I have had a few conversations about this with colleagues and we commented on how including “just” in our wording seems to be a part of…
-
Where Are You on This Continuum?
I was recently discussing a trend with a colleague regarding people and organizations who declare themselves Trauma-Informed, sometimes only as a result of attending a workshop here or there. In our opinion, to be truly trauma-informed requires a great deal more study than that. I think this can lead us to a discussion around a…
-
The Power of Beliefs
This past week I reread a few books that I found to be very powerful in years past and wanted to refresh my memory on some of the key points in each. A favorite of mine is The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles by Bruce Lipton, Ph D. This is a book filled with powerful information and images based on…