Monthly Archives: September 2003

Rescue v. helping

Are you helping or rescuing? It is sometimes difficult to realize when the line has been crossed, especially with loved ones. However, always stepping in and cleaning up the mistakes our children make is destructive rescuing. Certainly at times it … Continue reading

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Day care centers: really look at the kids

They lied. Every time Brenda Robinson called to check on her grandson, 3-year-old Tavian Johnson on Sept. 11., the staff at the Smart Start Learning Center Day care in North Little Rock lied. They told her he was fine. “Are … Continue reading

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Benefits of exercise

For seven years, Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon tramped all over Florida looking for the Fountain of Youth and never found it. He was so close, too. He was just looking in the wrong place. He should have looked inside … Continue reading

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Japanese exchange student Yukiko

After all these years of writing, I thought I had a handle on the English language. Then, while my husband was off helping my son remodel his home in New Orleans, I impetuously agreed to accept an Asian exchange student … Continue reading

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Change is good

Every where I turned that week the message was the same, “Change is good, it provides growth, insight, experience and opportunities to try out new things.” I knew all that, but I really did not want to be reminded right … Continue reading

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