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What’s Your Breaking Point?

How do you respond when your kids push your buttons? Offspring, who constantly fight, bicker, whine and complain can drive a parent to his or her breaking point, which can then lead to a time out for the offending child, a revoking of privileges or a stern lecture. I typically opt for the latter when my daughter pushes the limits because it has proven to be quite effective. At some point it may no longer yield the same results. Still, I can say with almost 100 percent certainty, if lecturing doesn’t do the job, I won’t be calling the cops … Continue reading →

How to Pick an Emergency Contact

Designating an emergency contact is a very important part in the plan to disaster proof your home and your family. This step can take as little as five minutes, although it is easy to overlook, and most people ignore it. Here is what you need to know in order to pick an emergency contact. Get this step done, if you want to be really prepared for potential emergencies and disaster. What will you do if an emergency strikes and you can’t get any information about what is happening? What will you do if your family members are in different locations, … Continue reading →

Could your business benefit from blog reviews?

What is a blog review? A blog review is when a blogger tests a product and then posts his or her impressions of said product on his or her blog. How does a blog review work? Either a company or public relations person will contact the blogger or a blogger will contact a company and request a review of a particular product. The company sends a complimentary product to the blogger. The blogger has no financial obligation for the product or shipping. The blogger is under no obligation to write a positive review, send the product back or review the … Continue reading →

Point of Contact

Currently I’m hard at work on my dissertation. Dissertations are weird entities that force their writers into very clear decisions. The single point you intend to discuss, research, analyze and explore can be approached from a variety of different angles. The difficulty, of course, is that you must pick one angle (or, absent just one, a couple very specific angles). Don’t bite off more than you can chew comes to mind as an apt corollary. This type of work is massive in depth but not massive in breadth. You explore a limited thing in a specific way. While working on … Continue reading →

Reports From a Resident Alien: The Blog of Lisa Daxer

Lisa Daxer is a 27 year old biomedical engineering major at Wright State University in Ohio. She also happens to be a person with autism. Her blog “Reports from a Resident Alien” is, like many people’s blogs, a series of stories about her day to day experiences. She also writes somewhat anthropological observations about how the people around her, who do not have autism, socially interact with each other. She was interviewed on NPR recently, on their “All Things Considered” show. They have been doing a series called “The Human Edge”, which explores how evolution has made the human species … Continue reading →

A Personal Contact

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Recently I discovered the value of an e-mail. In some ways this must already be clear as day to everyone else but it has always been difficult for me to take the first step in contacting a stranger for assistance, advice, or help. Taking that first step is extremely important for both your career and your education. In school we often read books written by people we’ll never meet and they might even include interviews with other lifelong strangers. The danger is not actually knowing someone who is actually doing what you are trying to learn in school. Whether it … Continue reading →

Keep in Contact with People who Might Help Your Business

It can be easy to get swallowed up within the daily operations of our home businesses. Once we decide to go solo and start our businesses, it can seem as though our world has gotten smaller—at least in the beginning stages. It is so important, however, to keep in contact with those people whom we meet or people from our old life. After all, they may be able to help us as we build our businesses. I am NOT advocating using people or keeping people in your roll-o-dex just in case you might need them for your home business operations; … Continue reading →

Book Review: After Adoption: Direct Contact and Relationships

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The book After Adoption: Direct Contact and Relationships, by Carole Smith and Janette Logan, fills a void in the adoption literature by providing real examples of how contact between birth relatives, adopted children and their adoptive families are arranged. The authors include comments from all parties regarding their feelings about these contacts. The authors, who are on the faculty of Applied Social Science at a British university, note that while there is an increasing presumption in favor of open adoption (in both the UK and the US), there is little substantive research as to its benefit. One interesting thing to … Continue reading →

How Many Contacts Does it Take for a Sale?

I have heard all sorts of theories about how many conversations and contacts or “touches” a business owner can anticipate before a sale is made or a customer brought on board—everything from five to ten to twenty different “touches” in order to finally reel someone in. Instead of focusing on the numbers, however, I do think we can concentrate on interacting with our prospects in different ways and making sure we “layer” our approach in order to reach them. Here is a personal example from my own life: nearly two years ago, I signed up to receive an e-mail newsletter … Continue reading →

Month in Review: Adoption Blog, December 2007

I began the month with a book review that tied in to my November series on coping with discrimination and racism. The Christmas Menorahs: How a Town Fought Hate is based on an inspiring true story of how a town in Montana came together when Jewish and African-American families were terrorized. Then I ran Part One and Part Two Part Two of Is It Okay to Be Choosy? regarding the comments adopting parents often get that if they “really wanted to help”, they’d choose the most needy child or the one with the most special needs–and sometimes we lay this … Continue reading →