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Inspired Parenting Online MagazineVol. 2 No. 2 What You Say and What Children HearBy Caron Goode Ever wonder what happens when your young children respond in unexpected ways to the words you say? It's because the words they hear differ from the emotional messages they receive at the same time. Consequently, they feel mixed up so their responses are mixed up. Read on... The Lost Art of ConversationBy Lloyd J. Thomas When rummaging around in my Grandparent's "study" one day, I found a textbook copyrighted in 1896, entitled, "The Art of Elocution." I dusted off the very small volume and read the following definition of elocution: "The art by which, in delivering a discourse before an audience, the speaker is enabled to render it effective and impressive." The textbook turned out to be the curriculum written for young women to learn to be "effective and impressive" conversationalists. Read on... Book Review - Best Friends, Worst EnemiesBy Anna Stewart
Best Friends, Worst Enemies : Understanding the Social
Lives of Children It's the first day of school at the neighborhood elementary school and the kids are checking out who will be this years' classmates. There's nervous jostling in the younger grades for the line-up at the door. The "bigger" kids are louder and more sure of who they will hang with - they've almost all known each other since kindergarten. The little kindergartners are clinging to their parent's hands - more interested in relating to the teacher than the other kids. What all the kids are doing is developing their social lives - a lifelong process. Read on... Inspired Grandparenting: Old Enough to Break the RulesBy Elaine K. Williams It is a fascinating moment when your grandchild is old enough to comprehend that you are not only her grandmother, but the mother of her mother! This moment came in a most inauspicious way last summer. Read on...
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