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The Importance of Not Sharing

It’s one of life’s most important lessons and it doesn’t come easy. Sharing is a challenging concept for many adults to master, so imagine the toll it takes on preschoolers. Most preschool curriculums incorporate a slew of opportunities for four year olds to learn the fine art of sharing.  They are taught to be generous with their possessions so their peers don’t feel left out.  However, is sharing really caring?  Does it really matter if kids share and share alike? Some educators don’t think so. In fact, a growing number of preschools are putting the kibosh on forced sharing in … Continue reading →

Cameras, Airline Problems, and Medication Issues

This week, the Special Needs Blog included topics such as cameras in classrooms, airlines behaving badly, unaccepted apologies, and many issues with different kinds of medications. Here is a quick review of the blogs that went up between September 3, 2012, and September 8, 2012. Thalidomide Maker’s Apology Not Enough Gruenenthal, the maker of a drug called thalidomide (and Contergan and Distaval), issued an apology for the harm caused to those affected by their drug. Many are seeing this apology as insufficient, and believe that there should be financial compensation coming to the thalidomide victims. Harvard Newspaper Website Runs Ad … Continue reading →

What Are You Sharing Your Bed With?

Sometimes when I’m searching the internet for ideas I come across something that makes my skin itch. This is one of those posts. Dust mites, now that I know about them I may never get a good nights sleep! Dust mites cannot be seen with the naked eye but they can still cause serious health problems such as allergies, asthma, nasal polyps and eczema. Believe it or not, they are one of the most common causes of allergies and asthma. Dust mites need moisture and they feed on dead skin cells, ewwwww! They love to hid in our beds, making … Continue reading →

A Blog of Sharing

I’ve been blogging here at Families.com for a while now and I’ve been enjoying it quite a bit. It took a while for me to get my own personal blog going (of things mostly unrelated to our son) but I finally got it up and running a while ago. It became a resource for another side of myself (primarily the artist/academic side) and I really enjoyed what I was able to do with it. Recently I helped one of my professors set up his own blog site for the purpose of answering questions about his particular field and it has … Continue reading →

Problems with Baby

A new baby changes the dynamic for a couple. There is no longer just the two of you to think about. Suddenly there is a third individual needing feeding, changing, bathing and caring for. The person who is at home with baby, in most cases the new mother, can feel she does little else all day but feed baby, change diapers, wash and do all those myriad activities associated with a baby. Then she finally gets the baby to sleep and her husband comes home. He’s been at work all day and wants to hold the baby. Recently a radio … Continue reading →

The Homeschool Blog Awards 2010

This year marks the 6th Annual Homeschool Blog Awards by The Homeschool Post. The buzz is all over the homeschooling blogosphere. I love this time of year because I enjoy voting for my favorite blogs. Homeschool Bloggers put so much time and energy in supporting one another, sharing their hearts and minds, and encouraging one another. This is the time to give back to this group of women by supporting your favorite blogs with your votes. I am especially excited this year as it is my second year being nominated. I’ve been nominated in Best Variety Blog and Best Curriculum … Continue reading →

Sharing Knowledge

In my previous post I talked about a growing concern among academics about the use of their “intellectual property” by other individuals (including, sometimes, their own students) in the halls and forums of universities. These are understandable concerns. In some ways the fear is that someone else could take your syllabus (full of hard work and sweat and tears) and go off and teach it themselves without crediting (or otherwise giving monetary or other value) to the original creator, you. There are a number of problems that I identify with this line of thinking that I’ll get to in a … Continue reading →

Being Frugal Is A Way Of Life – New FL Blogger Intro

Finally, I’m writing my Frugal Living introduction post. Better late than never, I always say. I wanted to say hello to my fellow FL living blogger Mary Ann Romans, and all of Families.com new bloggers. Since starting with this website about a month ago I’ve been having a lot of fun writing in my various topics. Being able to share and learn is a wonderful thing. As the title of my blog today states, being frugal truly is a way of life, not just one area of it. Many times someone may start out counting pennies in the area of … Continue reading →

Mommy Blog Bashers

Have you ever considered that you could be helping a struggling single mom of four young children make ends meet each time you click on a link that leads to her blog? Earlier this year Oprah Winfrey devoted an entire show to the “Secret Lives of Moms.” It featured an audience full of women drooling at the chance to discuss the joys and pitfalls associated with raising the next generation. A portion of the episode spoke to a “new” kind of motherhood, in which women no longer suffer in silence about negative parenting experiences, mistakes and lack of maternal instincts. … Continue reading →

Sharing the Load

One of the worst things about being a single parent is trying to do everything yourself. If you are fortunate enough to have someone help you, say an ex-husband or an ex-wife or good ole Mom, that is wonderful. For those of you who get by on a wing and a prayer, two hours of sleep, or cancelling a doctor’s appointment for yourself that is long overdue just because there are no other choices, I feel your pain and know it well. This burden of stress can only go on so long before it takes its toll on you. Something … Continue reading →