479 results for '“I Just Don’t like the Sound of No'

Revving Up for a Positive Start to the School Year (Post)

Preparing for a recent vacation, I had a complete checklist.Outfits for all weather? Check. Toiletries? Check. Shoes for different activities? Check. Cash and cards? Check. I was covered. Nothing wa ...

​You, Too, Can Fail for the Win! (Post)

Fail? For the win?Who in their right mind would ever want to fail? And how can it be considered a win? Whether we like it or not (and trust me…we don’t like it!), somewhere along the road to adulth ...

Five Tips to Turn Around Negative Thoughts (Post)

Have you ever started off the day with positive intentions only to find your mood spiraling downwards as life seemingly throws all sorts of obstacles your way? Last week, I was rushing to drop ...

Fear: To Face or To Flee (Post)

Most people don’t have positive associations with the word fear. This is completely understandable. Feeling scared to your core isn’t exactly a pleasant experience. While not necessarily ...

Be Careful What You Look For (Post)

More than ten years ago, I embarked on an odyssey that, like all good odysseys, completely changed my life. Here’s what happened.It was August 2012, and I was moping around the house, convinced tha ...

Safety Rules for Kids Staying Home Alone (Post)

As summer progresses and schedules get busier, it might be more tempting to allow children to stay home alone. Waking the whole family for an early baseball or softball game of one family member m ...

​Back to School: 10 Restorative Care Tips (Post)

Back to school. Sometimes it’s a time of hope and excitement. Sometimes, it’s a time of anxiety and dread. “Will they like me?” “What if the work is too much?” &l ...

Good Things Come to Those Who Wait! (Post)

"You need to be more patient!" Six words that I have heard ALL of my life. To me, patience means waiting…and waiting is really hard! Personally, I think that a lack of patience is and always has been ...

Forgotten Permission Slips: Organization in the Classroom (Post)

Excerpts taken from full article originally featured on boystown.org/parenting.We’ve all heard “Mom, I have this permission slip for a field trip. It’s due today.” If I’m being honest, I hear i ...

The Impact of Reading Aloud with Your Children: Investing 15 Minutes a Day (Post)

Like many families when the pandemic shut down schools, I had young children at home. While juggling a new puppy, a potty-training toddler, a preschooler, a second-grader, and my own newly-remote s ...

Helped People Help People (Post)

“Hurt people hurt people” is an adage that you’ve likely heard before. The notion behind this statement is something along the lines of, “Those who have experienced emotional pain and suffering ...

Surviving Embarrassment (Post)

I CAN'T Believe That Just Happened!In the Stained Glass Tree, Jilly finds herself in plenty of embarrassing situations, but perhaps the worst is when she goes to her first dance and Brianna "accide ...