“Shira’s Hanukkah Gift” is set in a Jewish community in Canada and is about the aspiration of a ten year old girl, Shira. Her father thinks his daughter’s dream is imossible, but is told by Shira, “Papa, this is Canada, where anything is possible.” With the help of a mentor, Shira does achieve her dream. […]
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Many people, including children, often beat themselves up (figuratively) for mistakes. We want to help our children learn not to do so. The first step is to examine ourselves: do we beat ourselves up for our mistakes? If we do, you can be sure our children have seen us do this. These kinds of things
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I am normally pretty quick to forgive – both others and myself. After all, we’re all human. The other day, however, I did something and beat myself up for it. Here’s what happened: where I live in Ottawa, when the weather gets near freezing and below, if our cars aren’t in a garage overnight, ice
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I live in a place where we have four seasons, but they aren’t as evenly distributed as the calender would have us think – winter lasts about five months, rather than three. And the people who live here are divided between those who love winter and those who hate winter. Those who love winter are
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“Little Britches” by Ralph Moody, is autobiographical, but you’d never know it, as it is filled with adventure and drama and reads like an interesting novel. Ralph’s parents are hard-working and full of integrity, not to mention wisdom, and this is how they bring up their children. This book is a great read aloud for
In “Put Me in the Zoo”, the main creature wants to go live in the zoo, but is rejected. When he shows off his many tricks to two children, they realize that there is a better place for this fellow, and recommend he go to the circus. He does and it is the perfect place
I wrote a post in my “Life” blog, which is my more general blog, but I think that we parents need some more specific reminders – reminders that we should not only refrain from comparing ourselves with others, but we should not compare our spouse, our family, our children, or our homeschooling with others. Even
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