Building a Positive Family - Image with Scrapbooking

By Caron B. Goode

We are all aware of what a positive self-image can do for a person. It gives him the confidence to achieve more. It picks him up when he is down. It makes it possible for him to enjoy life to the fullest. The same holds true for families. Like individuals, every family has its ups and downs. Situations such as illness, seperation, divorce, and parent-child power struggles can dent a positive family-image. One way to offset the effects of these situations is to involve the family in a group project. Read on...

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Tune in to Temperament

By Brenda Nixon

A child isn’t born with personality. But, he’s born with temperament – specific traits that determine how he responds to the world. There’s no such thing as a good or bad temperament, it just is and kids can’t change their temperament anymore than they can change who gave them birth.   Read on...

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The Devastation of Divorce

By Trish Berg

There are times when I can still smell the sweet summer breezes coming in my window on the night when my world changed. I was about eight years old, and as I sat on my daisy and white bread spread, I could hear my mom’s foot steps coming down the hall. She and my dad had been fighting again, and the lump in my throat was getting bigger as the tears rolled down my cheeks.
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Book Review - Children’s Picture Books

By Anna Stewart

When you’ve got the Smithsonian Institution, the Wildlife Conservation Society and the World Wildlife Fund all endorsing a new series for kids, a die-hard environmentalist like me takes notice.

Combining drawings along with photographs, the illustrations have living texture to them; it’s kind of like watching television. The depth, motion, and composition of each page are truly a feast for the eyes.  Read on...