Susan Dayley's Blog, page 34
June 15, 2011
Good Things
First, G.G. Vandagriff is launching her wonderful book, The Only Way to Paradise. Check out her website for reviews, an amazing art giveaway, and details about the book. I will post my review this Friday, so watch for that. This is the perfect book for summer reading. G.G. will also write a guest post on a Wednesday [...]
June 13, 2011
Helping Children Learn Civility
In the dictionary, civility comes from a word meaning enclosure. It explained, "the rude inhabitants of antiquity fortified their towns with hedges, stakes or palisades." It protected them and their way of life. This is an illustration children can understand. Civility is a metaphoric enclosure of behavior that preserves a civilization. Civility is: 1. The [...]
Why Children need to Learn Civility
In the dictionary, civility comes from a word meaning enclosure. It explained, "the rude inhabitants of antiquity fortified their towns with hedges, stakes or palisades." It protected them and their way of life. This is a visual children can understand. Civility is a metaphoric enclosure of behavior that preserves a civilization. Civility is: 1. The [...]
June 10, 2011
The Perfect Fit
Andi, a successful, vibrant woman, becomes selected as a contestant on the new dating show, "Finding Mrs. Right." The show is filmed in beautiful Hawaii where Andi falls in love with the landscape that contrasts black, ragged volcanoes with lush vegetation. Dates take place in helicopter rides over Cascading waterfalls, zip line rides over deep gorges (I've [...]
June 8, 2011
Timing is Everything
My granddad worked as a foreman on the Budge Ranch during the summer to earn tuition for school in winter. My grandmother's girlfriend was the daughter of the family who owned the ranch and she obtained a job one summer as a cook. It was there that many of her cookie recipes were created. As [...]
June 6, 2011
"14 Tips for Disciplining Children"
I was away from home for the last three days (baby-sitting the grand-puppies–yes, there is something wrong with that statement–but we love our children, and the "boys" are adorable). Also, my computer decided to battle a virus that hid all my files and icons. I could find them through a search, but they had simply [...]
Wonderful Article about Disciplining Children
I was away from home for the last three days (baby-sitting the grand-puppies–yes, there is something wrong with that statement–but we love our children, and the "boys" are adorable). Also, my computer decided to battle a virus that hid all my files and icons. I could find them through a search, but they had simply [...]
June 3, 2011
The Perfect Haven
I grew up in a Willow tree. It's not true, but that's how some members of my family remember it. I know I came down occasionally, like at meal times, and for winter. My favorite companions (with siblings coming in a close second), were Heidi, Frodo, Hans, Jo, and a dozen others that I smuggled [...]
June 1, 2011
Real Life Parable
Recently a business associate of my husband's returned from a trip to Hawaii. While there, his daughter, her husband, and their seven year old daughter went parasailing. A storm came up and the line to the parasail snapped. Left at the mercy of the wind, the child was ripped from her life jacket that held [...]
May 30, 2011
Enjoying the Rainy Days
After another night of rain pouring on the distant rooftop above my head and running down through the drain pipe near my window, I awoke to the final words of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in my head: When that I was a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, A foolish thing [...]
