Get Your Child Ready for SchoolWritten by Caroline G. Shaw
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Buy some play money. Talk about pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. A penny is 1 cent, a nickel is 5 cents (etc.) Ask how many pennies are in a nickel. How many in a dime? How many coins make 12 cents, 13 cents (etc.)? Review shapes with your child …have a shape of week, number/letter of day, color of day, shape of day. Get a children's magazine and read stories, do activities with your child. Help your child direct a play with neighborhood friends. http://www.parentinginformation.org/booksboxes.htm Hug your child, pray with your child at night, go on walks in woods with your child. Go to pool with your child. Love them and take time for them. They grow up quickly. My youngest is going into 10th grade! Get Your Child Ready for School, From U.S. Dept. of Education: http://readyweb.crc.uiuc.edu/library/1992/getready/getready.html
Caroline Shaw holds a B.S. degree from Duquesne University in Secondary Education, English. She is mom to six children,editor and publisher of the Online Magazine,"AMomsLove.com" Each issue contains informative articles for WAHMs,single moms, working moms, and more. She lives with her husband, three "still at home" children, a collie and three kitties in Western Pennsylvania. Her hobbies are writing, cooking, gardening, decorating and crafts.
| | What’s Your Dating and Relationship IQ?Written by Dr. Kevin Skinner
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Positive Communication—people who score high on relationship intelligence are positive communicators. How a person solves problems has a significant impact on their relationships. A person with high relationship intelligence is very good at solving problems when they communicate. They use positive communication—kind, non-accusatory language, sincere listening, probing questions to seek understanding, a smile, eye contact, etc. In other words they aren’t always communicating negativity. Yes, negative communication also includes silent treatment. Established Boundaries—successful relationship intelligence wouldn’t be complete without boundaries. It is hard to feel confident in yourself when you don’t know what you want and don’t want. Boundaries are not just physical boundaries. They include: not putting up with emotional or verbal abuse, standing up for yourself, expressing oneself, etc. So how did you do? Do you need to improve in a few areas? These are just a few of elements that make up a person’s dating and relationship intelligence. If you want to increase your chances of succeeding in dating relationships, it is important to regularly evaluate yourself and your behaviors in dating and relationships. If you don’t like where you are, all is not lost. Start today and do something positive to increase your relationship intelligence. In truth, it is much easier to improve your relationship intelligence than it is to improve your IQ. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit www.metromingle.com today to meet local singles in your area in a clean and wholesome environment. http://www.metromingle.com/
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