Tag: children
group name: ourneighborhood
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November 20, 2006 03:40 PM EST --
an open letter to my sons
(I will give this to them on Thanksgiving and read it with them if you have any suggestions on improving the wording please share them with me!!)
Dear Matthew and Andrew,
Today . . .
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January 18, 2007 11:13 AM EST --
My sister forwarded this to me and I thought I'd pass it on to all those parents with boys. Do any of these sound familiar?LOL Do you have any favorites?
A few interesting . . .
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December 28, 2006 01:12 PM EST --
I'm sure that as children we all had a favorite tree to play in. Those willos offered more than most and I have memories of them. Here is a poem I wrote about that.
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January 20, 2007 08:51 AM EST --
I bought my niece an Easy Bake Oven for Christmas. I was very happy because it was on sale for $10. What a deal, right? Well, I should have paid attention to how much the refill packages are? One serving . . .
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March 25, 2007 11:10 PM EDT --
I believe we had some discussion about this before and there were various opinions. I just heard the story on the news of the little boy (Georgia, I believe) who was assaulted, raped and killed by . . .
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December 24, 2006 10:05 PM EST --
Christmas Eve in my town was tinged with heartbreaking news, one of the saddest stories to happen here in all of 2006. A man dropped off two boys, ages 6 and 8, at a grocery store and informed the clerk . . .
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January 14, 2007 11:52 AM EST --
Like everyone else, I am just simply amazed at the safe return of Shawn Hornbeck, the Missouri teen who went missing four years ago. At the same time, I'm perplexed by the fact that he was found within . . .
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October 02, 2008 06:29 PM EDT --
Many of you read my articles about the guy convicted of reckless homicide after shooting a teen who was having an affair with his wife. The teen was a student of the wife's.
The wife and the . . .
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December 03, 2006 11:31 PM EST --
Upon hearing how wonderful it is to be a grandparent, the uninitiated will often respond with a denigrating smile and a polite nod, all the while thinking, “Are you joking?”
Who knew how magical . . .
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December 04, 2007 03:43 PM EST --
Years ago, when my now 17 year old was less than 3, she was pretty much a little angel. Susie didn’t go through the dreaded terrible twos, not at two, not ever. She was usually pretty . . .
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January 04, 2007 07:55 AM EST --
"This is a thought for you, as a reader to ponder..."
Heaven has a gate...where special angels wait
To earn their sash and trumpet...a special book they take
Archangels, Cherubs and . . .
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February 27, 2007 08:15 PM EST --
Last night, per our usual routine, my two little buddies came upstairs to play with me.
Grandsons are precious. They're inspirational. Hysterical. Adorable. And they keep me humble.
All day . . .
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January 30, 2007 12:15 AM EST --
It's what you do with it that really counts. The initial reason that a marriage begins is relatively unimportant. In the course of a long psychotherapy practice, I have heard, "we . . .
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September 23, 2007 10:10 PM EDT --
My child walks in the door at four o'clock sharp. I put her in the bath to wash a whole summer's worth of grime off her feet and chlorine out of her hair. Her backpack . . .
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October 09, 2007 10:51 PM EDT --
I was sitting here studying and I got an email from Fiorenze regarding an article that he had written ( http://www.gather.com/viewMessage.jsp?messageId=9851624189531602 )
I got this horrible . . .
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April 28, 2007 06:33 PM EDT --
I had been toying with the idea of donating my hair to LOCKS OF LOVE for some time before I actually did it in December of 2006, the 29th . . .
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December 05, 2006 12:32 PM EST --
It only seems like yesterday when we shared dreams up the Hill
Your siblings played and laughed as you wiped away their tears.
Through pouring rain and sunny days you swallowed their pain.
As you wispered . . .
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August 24, 2007 04:07 PM EDT --
As you can imagine, teaching at a high school, I see a lot of students both male and female that are parents at a very young age. It is not my job to pass judgement on that choice or in some cases the . . .
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August 24, 2007 09:14 PM EDT --
You hear so much negativity these days from teachers and about teachers. So, this article is different. I am going to write about why I as a teacher think I am lucky !! (I honestly think that I am)
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