Archive for October, 2005
Sleep To Learn
Monday, October 24th, 2005 According to research done in the mid 1990’s on sleep, while your body powers down your brain powers up. It reorganizes and “implants” what you learned during the day. Your body needs sleep for survival and for learning. Yet typical lifestyles of families and children are detrimental to good sleep.
So how [...]
Trust The One Who Never Fails
Tuesday, October 18th, 2005At one time when my children were much younger I was afraid they would turn from God because of something I did or did not do. It sounds silly now, looking back. We were purposefully training our children in the knowledge of God and His ways. We were praying for them daily and trying to [...]
Be There For Them
Sunday, October 16th, 2005Ellen’s first post was on A Rewarding Perspective. In it she wrote, “Feelings of exhaustion can fog your perspective.” This week a teacher reminded me that feelings of frustration could fog our perspective too.
This Friday morning my youngest daughter Abby, now 14, called me from the bus. “Dad” she said “I was [...]
A New Strategy For Porn Websites
Thursday, October 13th, 2005Page views. Its all about page views. Some junk e-mails really only want you to go and “unsubscribe” so the advertisers listed on the side pay them a few pennies each page view. I hear this is the new way web site owners are getting paid. Some just for getting page [...]
A Rewarding Perspective
Sunday, October 9th, 2005When my children were very small, more experienced mothers I knew would tell me that the early years pass quickly and that I would miss them when they’re gone. How could this be true? We had 4 children in 7 years. Every day seemed like a week. They were so beautiful but so exhausting. [...]
What will they have longer, their trophies or their injuries?
Friday, October 7th, 2005Excerpts from an article from Yale New Haven Hospital web site. (link to full article below)
Increase in adult-type injuries among children and adolescents
Unfortunately, increasing numbers of young children are becoming sports-specific and training year-round to compete at a competitive level of play, which puts them at risk for overuse injuries. In some cases, the [...]
A Silly Sorrow
Monday, October 3rd, 2005I write to you with a silly sorrow. OK, sorrow is not silly, but our reason for sorrow can sometimes be “silly”. I am very, very sad. But when weighing the reason for my sorrow against all of life, I know deep down that it is silly.
This summer God saw fit to [...]