Archive for December, 2008
So what’s it going to be?
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Posted: December 31st, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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New Year’s resolutions
Those of you who read yesterday’s post are wondering why I’m even bothering with this topic. (I’ll wait while you go back….) Well, resolutions have their place in our lives, too.
The year I graduated from college, my life as I had planned it went away. I had planned a career, but from the moment I [...]
Posted: December 30th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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New Year’s “restitutions”
I was watching the Winnie the Pooh Christmas movie with my 6-year-old last week and became interested in Tigger’s interpretation of New Year’s resolutions. “Restitutions,” he called them. And you know what? I like his version better.
Resolutions - losing weight, saving money, making better grades - have become things to be broken. So what if [...]
Posted: December 29th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Haven’t seen you in a while!
Parents: now that your young’un is home for the holiday break, you have the chance to catch up with what’s been gong on in their lives. A lot of you, I know, sent them off to college in the fall and that was the last you heard from them - unless they needed money!
What is [...]
Posted: December 23rd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Quiet time
This is the third Christmas for my family without Laura. (http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3296170)
I encourage parents to spend some time talking to their college students when they are home on break for the holidays. Find out how your student likes college: is dorm life what they expected? Have they made new friends? How did classes go? What unexpected [...]
Posted: December 22nd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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