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Communication Begins with Touch

April 13, 2012

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Communication through touch with baby message

If our children trust us and know that we respect them, we have the groundwork for building good communication. For one way to develop trust and respect see Parenting from the Source: Communication The next step is building the necessary skills. Touch Is Our First Language of Communication Touch is a basic communication skill. It’s the [...]

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3 Ways to Get to the Heart of a School Problem

March 7, 2012

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Kindergarten teacher and children, happy, looking at globe

Twenty-one smiling faces greeted me that morning. They eagerly waited to see what the new teacher would do. Would she make their world a good place the seven hours a day she spent with them in the sixth grade? From that classroom of twenty one would come a banker, an engineer, two farmers, a nurse, [...]

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Seize the Moment

August 31, 2011

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father and son talking and communicating in car

When my children were in elementary school, I got off work about one hour after they were dismissed from school. For a few years they went to day care for that hour. When I picked them up, they were full of tales about school. Because I had them trapped in the car

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