Tag: children
member name: anna g. vanwinkle
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March 04, 2006 06:38 PM EST --
How to Sneeze Like a Woman:
Pieces is parts, parts is pieces. This is all well and good if you happen to be a Chicken McNugget. . . .
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August 08, 2007 08:23 PM EDT --
Reputation is a two edged sword - because after one is earned? It is often called upon to be lived up to.
In this instance- IT is a 70 pound drooling black lab that was dragged down the street by one . . .
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March 30, 2006 10:15 PM EST --
Spring Break 2005 I drove my son to the airport to catch a plane to go visit his dad. We arrived as usual an hour and ten minutes before takeoff. We live in a small town - the two hour rule never applies. . . .
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April 13, 2006 11:34 AM EDT --
My mother called yesterday. My niece is getting married.
"Hey, sweetheart. I have something to ask you. I pulled my jewelry out of the safe deposit box. Do you mind if I give Jennie . . .
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May 23, 2006 11:21 AM EDT --
"Sweetie, you aren't a dog, stop licking your plate."
"Awe - you're just like my mother."
"My mom doesn't make me take a bath before bed."
"Guess what? . . .
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May 22, 2006 10:16 AM EDT --
Every now and then social workers get to do some good. Here's Mary's story.
She wheeled herself into my office.
"Are you the new Social Worker?"
"Yes Ma'mam, what . . .
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September 10, 2007 02:56 PM EDT --
Four score and twenty years go back in 1999 our precious little ray of sunshine started kindergarten.There was hardly a day that went by that I didn’t get the ‘come here’ index finger . . .
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June 11, 2006 12:05 AM EDT --
This week I was in a store and caught off guard by a mother and her about 8 year old daughter in the midst of a public display of fit throwing and abuse.
The child cried and rubbed her . . .
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May 16, 2006 10:58 PM EDT --
My son wasn't feeling well a few days ago. He brought his blanket to the sofa and crawled into my lap like he's always done.
It must have been a while since we did this last. He elbowed in, wriggled, . . .
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May 17, 2006 12:00 AM EDT --
"Mom, I found an egg!!! Come look."
Inside his hand was a speckled birds egg, a chunk of shell missing from one side.
"What are we going to do with it? Can we Hatch it?" . . .
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July 31, 2007 10:35 PM EDT --
Friends. When we have them, we don't think about them too seriously.
We we don't have them? It's hard to think about anything else.
For the last five years I lived on . . .
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April 08, 2006 09:24 PM EDT --
Today, I missed a parent moment. My son broke his first board in Tae Kwon Do and tested for his yellow belt. I wasn't there to see it. I wasn't there to beam. Help . . .
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March 24, 2006 02:24 PM EST --
Sad News
With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the
moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person,
which almost went unnoticed . . .
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January 16, 2007 01:19 PM EST --
I was about 15 at the time. There was a brand new Toyota Corolla in the drive way waiting for me to turn 16. While my parents were not made of . . .
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January 18, 2007 08:59 PM EST --
It was the best of times, it was the...oh. Wrong story. Let me start again.
This is a story of how Princess Tootie came to be at our house. Or? How my husband nearly . . .
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March 16, 2006 09:38 AM EST --
Creating a gifted ADD Child takes a lot of work, but here's a simple recipe to follow in order to hardwire your child's brain for pre-disposition to favorable diagnosis.
1. At Birth, interact . . .
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March 22, 2006 10:21 AM EST --
Christmas trees? Nice, but I don't really like them.
When I was a kid, putting up the tree involved cursing, threatening of lives, and throwing boxes across the room. The words "i . . .
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March 16, 2006 11:12 AM EST --
I've long wanted to say HOOEY! to the myth of birth order.
"The first child will be a type A, child, your accountant, your perfectionist, your child who must lead at at all times"... . . .
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March 18, 2006 05:22 PM EST --
The Story of Special Ed.
Ed was a born to a litter of four kittens who came into our home last Spring for Foster Care. When the litter arrived courtesy of Lora Jones we named them . . .
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January 26, 2006 09:48 AM EST --
Bryan - to start with - is a funny kid. This may be why the funny approach to parenting works well with him. I don't know who else on the planet has an 11 year . . .
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