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Reconnecting with Reading

Dale’s most recent blog post here in Education, The Most Vital thing You Can Do for your Child’s Education, really got me thinking. It was only just two weeks ago that I actually asked myself this question in my head, “I wonder when we should start reading to Cillian?” I’d like to take this moment to thank, Dale, for her input on this subject and encourage you to go and read the whole thing here. One of the things my wife and I did to turn my son in the womb when he was breech was to talk to him. … Continue reading →

Free eBooks for Your Kindle – Week of February 8, 2012

One of the great things about the Kindle is that it makes it way more convenient for you to carry around the book that you are currently reading. Amazon.com tends to offer free ebooks for the Kindle, that are completely legal for you to download. This week, you might want to check out some free Romance novels on your Kindle. Just in time for Valentine’s Day! Irresistible Forces is a romance novel by Brenda Jackson. You can download it to your Kindle from Amazon.com for FREE right now. The story is about Taylor Steele, who goes on a “procreation vacation” … Continue reading →

Thanks To A Friend

There are some benefits that joining Face Book that you may not think about. When you think of Face Book you think about people reconnecting with old loves and old friends but you don’t think about getting incredible support in your journey through cancer. I have found that cancer has touched a great deal of lives in my old hometown of Woonsocket, Rhode Island. There are many of my former classmates that have battled cancer. It was surprising to me to see all the people that have either battled cancer themselves or a loved one of theirs did. It was … Continue reading →

Poetry in Schools

As a poet myself, I have a natural interest in reading poetry as well as writing it. Sadly many teachers seem to do more to turn children and young adults of poetry off than to turn them on to it. By the time they’ve insisted the poem be dissected myriad times, children have lost any joy in the poem. Sometimes poems are simply meant to be enjoyed not analyzed to death. Then let the meaning and all the rest sort of sneak up on the young person, as they think about it. I was fortunate when at school in having … Continue reading →

Boys Don’t Read?

For years we’ve been hearing the mantra ‘boys don’t read.’ Sometimes I wonder if this attitude isn’t perpetuated by such comments and assumptions. What is necessary to grow a male reader? One is having books read to them from the time they are born. I mean a wide variety of books, not just those considered ‘boy books.’ Another is having a reading example especially from their father or other men. I taught our son to read before school. Quite simply he was ready. He’d experienced the pleasure to be had from reading a book as he listened to myriad stories. … Continue reading →

A Dangerous Trend in Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales

Nursery Rhymes and fairy tales help teach children about the world. That’s the view of many experts including June Factor who has spent many years researching childhood and school playground rhymes and writing children’s books. However the trend at present appears to be to try and sanitize nursery rhymes, for example in England the BBC has come under fire for a rewrite of the Humpty Dumpty Nursery rhyme. Now instead of saying ‘all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again,’ the revised rhyme says they,’made Humpty happy again.’ The idea behind this sanitizing of … Continue reading →

Stay Connected Through the Holidays

The holidays are such a busy time that you may find that you are putting your marital relationship on the back burner. This is a time of stress and worry as well. It is important that you work together to get everything done. In order for this to happen you need to take time to nourish your relationship. Here are five tips to help you through the holidays. 1) Make sure that you have a planning meeting every week through the holidays. This will help you to coordinate your family’s activities and to divide responsibilities. You may not have time … Continue reading →

Keeping Your Marriage Strong while raising a special-needs child

Your child has been diagnosed, and you are faced with the reality that your son or daughter has a developmental delay. The news can be crushing, and sometimes devastating to a marriage. What often drives couples apart are the different coping strategies adopted by each partner. Recognize Coping Strategies For example, a husband might cope by withdrawing from the situation. He may bury himself in his work, staying later than usual in the evenings. He may become hostile over minor things, in an attempt to keep himself emotionally distant from his wife. Perhaps a wife might cope by becoming obsessed … Continue reading →