Child raising tip from a school superintendent

Trying a strategy similar to one used at school where students earn Super Student Designation:  Wife was at practice and son was acting up - he's 1 - what do you expect? I moved his clip to Warning and went to the other room. When I returned he had ripped the Warning plate off the wall, threw it on the floor and went back to chewing on a colored pencil.

Touché my son....Touché.

Powerful beyond measure

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure...it is our light NOT our darkness that most frightens us. For as we let our own light shine we unconsciously let others do the same. Don't allow fear to stand in the way of your dreams.


"When our lives are difficult, we sometimes feel like life will never change. This, in turn, makes it harder for us to take the steps that might create the change we want. When your life is full of ups and downs, remember to keep your eye on your goal, and the desires of your heart. You will get through it."   Doug Westmoreland 

"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true."
~Leon J. Suenes

Good Samaritan Finds Little Girl's Lost Letter to Santa, Fulfills Wish

The Simple Blessings of Christmas or your respective holiday

30 simple, spiritual, life-affirming, inspiring, and thought-provoking blessings to be experienced during the Christmas/holiday season.

Watch - The Simple Blessings of Christmas >>


Copyright © 2005 - 2013 Simple Truths, LLC

Doug Logan, Director of the Regional Juvenile Detention Center

Jeri Rowe: Bryant's Cry For Help - News-Record.com: Jeri's GSO

Jeri Rowe: For young inmates, the gifts of caring:   Dolley Madison Women's Club

 

Guilford College Hege Library: shared books

Ed McKay Book Store: shared books

Dentist: shared set of toothbrush, toothpaste, and dental floss for each child

Wrangler/VF: shared jeans for each child

New Garden Friends Meeting: shared books, coats, scarves, gloves, hat

Community leaders/members can encourage positive development and this show of support helps children develop a sense of worth and "hope". 

Children are our most valuable resource.

Operation Yuletide

Greensboro police give back for 'Operation Yuletide'

myfox8.com ‎- 10 hours ago

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Greensboro police delivered food and gifts throughout the city as part of the department's annual “Operation Yuletide."

My Christmas Eve by Bob Welsh, Highway Patrol (3:58 min. video)

http://www.youtube.com/embed/WxjZB5S_g7s?rel=0

"Make a Difference" (video)

Encouragement, Inspiration & Empowerment

Compassion is the one thing that can transform any situation in literally 30 seconds or less.
 
What a little third grader says to his teacher at Christmas time instantly bypasses the head and goes straight to the heart of any issue, no matter what.

Watch Make A Difference >>

 
 
Re-energize your personal relationships and workplace culture - inspire greater loyalty - remember to put into practice the message of this classic, time honored story. 
 
Turn on your speakers before you watch it

Win-Win: helping each other: 2:27 min. video

Incredible young guy helps a Muslim change tire...does not accept anything in return...only love ...
What would you do - YouTube

Inclusive: make another's moment/day (3:21 min. video)

http://www.godvine.com/Middle-School-Students-Do-Something-Amazing-for-a-Special-Little-Boy-4216.html

T, Dec. 17: Violent Offender Call-In

begins promptly at 6:00pm: (please arrive 10 minutes early)

 

High Point City Hall Council Chambers, 3rd floor (211 South Hamilton Street)

Violent Offender Call In: men and women who have been convicted of violent crimes and are on parole/probation.

Mandela tribute: 3:10 min. video

Beautiful tribute to Nelson Mandela: a flash mob song in a South African Woolworths
Woolworths teamed up with the Soweto Gospel Choir, who posed as shoppers and store workers at the Parkview store in Johannesburg.
The choir then began an "impromtu" rendition of Asimbonanga [We have not seen him], singing:

Asimbonanga [we have not seen him]
Asimbonang' uMandela thina [we have not seen Mandela]
Laph'ekhona [in the place where he is]
Laph'ehleli khona [in the place where he is kept]

Asimbonanga
Asimbonang 'umfowethu thina [we have not seen our brother]
Laph'ekhona [in the place where he is]
Laph'wafela khona [in the place where he died]
Sithi: Hey, wena [We say: hey, you]
Hey, wena nawe [Hey, you and you]
Siyofika nini la' siyakhona [when will we arrive at our destination]

The song was written during Mandela's incarceration as a call for his freedom.

http://za.news.yahoo.com/watch--the-most-touching-mandela-tribute-came-from-the-least-expected-place-070947330

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/07/249439677/watch-maya-angelous-poem-for-nelson-mandela

How to talk to our children about the Arapahoe HS shooting

“Pray for the innocent children & others...our precious brothers & sisters affected by the Arapahoe HS shooting.  Wrap your arms around these families, and give them strength as they & we mourn this terrible tragedy.”

"Hug your loved ones, share kindness & respect to fellow humanity. Cherish shared moments and time...which are precious, fragile, fleeting."

"When the elderly die, the past dies; when children die, the future dies."

 

Following was shared after Connecticut shooting:

"We have assembled a brief listing of excellent resources you can use to help in your efforts to talk with you and families about the shooting.  Special thank to the following people for rallying quickly and consulting with expert to identify a few key resource.  (There are a multitude of resources available but we think at this point in time, less is more.)

Our gratitude to Alfredo Aguirre, Director of Mental Health Services, San Diego County & Network Advisory Council Member, Wayne Lindstrom, President & CEO, Mental Health America, and Robert Abramovitz, Co-Director National Center for Social Work, Trauma Education and Workforce Development, Hunter College."

Review the resources and download what is most applicable to your needs

Scott Bryant-Comstock

President &CEO

Children’s Mental Health Network


"Someone remembers,
Someone cares,
Your name is remembered
In someone's prayers."

David Gaadt

What Would You Do? - Inter-racial Couple Faces Vicious Racist Attacks By A Black Woman! 8:42 min. video

What Would You Do? - Inter-racial Couple Faces Vicious Racist ...

Th, Dec. 12: 8:30am: Juvenile Crime Prevention Council (JCPC)

                                               Site: Guilford County Juvenile Detention Center

15 Lockheed Court (near former Greensboro airport)
Director Doug Logan; 336-641-2600

Operation Yuletide: Greensboro, NC Police

People interested in contributing monetary donations can make checks payable to Christ Wesleyan Church, 2400 South Holden Road, Greensboro, NC 27407. Please indicate Operation Yuletide at the bottom of the check. Church staff will provide receipts for tax-deductible cash donations. All proceeds will benefit Operation Yuletide. Police personnel and volunteers will deliver donations to the families in mid-December.     WXII12.com

Greensboro Police Wrap For Operation Yuletide' | Video | digtriad.com

'Operation Yuletide' | digtriad.com

Greensboro police officers keep giving in 'Operation Yuletide ...

Operation Yuletide & Fill the Cruiser Programs Return to Bring ...

W., 12-11-2013; 8 am; HP-CAV: note location site

W, Dec. 11; 8am

High Point Community Against Violence (HP-CAV)

Site: Washington Terrace Park Recreation Center: 101 Gordon Road, High Point, NC

Change the World (video)

The power each of us has to make a difference in this world begins
when each of us believes that we can make a difference.

Everything begins with changing ourselves FIRST.

Eleanor Roosevelt: "It is not fair to ask of others,
what you are unwilling to do yourself"

Today's video captures the essence of Eleanor's words.  Enjoy!


Copyright © 2010 - 2011 flickspireWatch Change the World

12-8: Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting

in memory of all the children who have died.  Please light a candle in the evening at 7pm local time, and remember them with love.  www.compassionatefriends.org

Greensboro News & Record

It is the festival of lights,

it is the season of miracles,

it is the holiday we remember our blessings.

5000 fans gather to create "Clouds" choir honoring late cancer sticken teen, Zach Sobiech

5,000 fans gather to create 'Clouds' choir honoring late cancer ...

In fight against cancer, 5,000 sing 'Clouds' at Mall of ... - Star Tribune

Nelson Mandela 1918 - 2013

Nelson Mandela Biography - Birthday, Facts, Life Story, Quotes ...

Remembering Nelson Mandela's Unsung Economic Legacy

Nelson Mandela dies at 95 - CNN.com.

Nelson Mandela death: World mourns South Africa's first black president

Nelson Mandela funeral Dec. 15 following week of mourning

Message from The Nelson Mandela Foundation, The Nelson ...

Nelson Mandela - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

NC Safer Schools Task Force meets

Task Force on Safer Schools holds first meeting

 

Hope, Help for Struggling Strawberry Mansion High Schools (15:28 min. video)

Strawberry Mansion High School, where 94 security cameras line the hallways and metal detectors are posted at every door, was once considered one of the most dangerous schools in the country. Located in a poor Philadelphia neighborhood with a high crime rate, Strawberry Mansion consistently…

Hope, Help for Struggling Strawberry Mansion High School
Nightline Fix

Sir Nicholas Winton rescued over 600 Jewish Kids from Nazi Camps (video)

Right before WWII, Sir Nicholas Winton organized the rescue of hundreds of Jewish Czechoslovakian children destined for the Nazi death camps. Forty years later, those children have gathered to honor the man who saved their lives.

What a beautiful moment. Humanitarian Nicholas Winton doesn't know that a 1988 TV audience has been pre-screened. When the host asks if anyone in the audience is alive because of him, every single person stands up.

By the way, he is still alive, at age 104.

This Man Rescued Over 600 Jewish Kids from Nazi Camps. He Doesn’t Know It Yet, But He’s Sitting with Them.

Glasses for Noah: positive approach for child needing glasses; Facebook, Today Show (video)

Today Show

When 4-year-old Noah found out he’d have to wear glasses to school, he burst into tears.

His mom took to Facebook, and asked friends to show Noah just how awesome glasses can be. The response was incredible: http://on.today.com/1eHsKUo

M, Dec. 2; 5:15-6:30pm; Restorative Justice Practices/Community Accountability Process (C.A.P.)

Have you or someone you know ever been harmed by another?
What is the process to involve participants to “repair the harm”?

Restorative Justice Practices/Community Accountability Process (C.A.P.)

Monday, December 2, 2013;   5:15-6:30pm
Site: NGFM: see below
 

Invitation to 4^th-5^th gd./MS/HS/College Students/Adults

This program can benefit people of all ages and all environments thru deep questions:

-Who has been hurt?

-What are their needs?

-Who has the obligation to address the needs, to put right the harms, to restore relationships?

Sandy Bowles is the Director of Student Judicial Affairs at Guilford College and has overseen the development and implementation of restorative justice processes through the judicial system currently in place. Prominent in the process is a modified restorative conference called C.A.P. (Community Accountability Process). Through this facilitated, scripted process, faculty, staff, students and alumni join this process to both challenge and support students who are in violation of the Student Code of Conduct.
Steve Moran is the Director of Student Leadership and Engagement at Guilford and has partnered with Sandy as one of the facilitators of CAP hearings.
Sandy and Steve will be asking for volunteers to join with them in demonstrating an abbreviated version of the C.A.P. process.

 

Invite/bring 2+ family members/friends

Site: New Garden Friends Meeting, 801 New Garden Road     No charge

corner of W Friendly & New Garden Road: across from Guilford College

Walk around to back of NGFM: enter 2nd door from left

(No food, no drink/water bottles in NGFM Worship Room...Thank you) 

Click left page 1: www.saferschools.blogspot.com

"Thanks Giving" (video)

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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or to accept the responsibility for changing them.

Watch "Thanks Giving"

Be Postive, Be Inspired, And Serve Others

Gratitude: Wish you a meaningful Thanksgiving

of love and wonder with family and friends

"Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return."
~John Wanamaker

Watch - Gratitude HD - Moving Art >>

Life Secrets

NC Governor McCrory Names Members of Task Force on Safer Schools

McCrory Names Members of Task Force on ... - The Voter Update

Governor McCrory Announces Task Force on Safer Schools ...

Corporal Joe Pass: Resource Officer, NWHS, Guilford County Schools

officer joe pass - Guilford County Schools

Deputy Joe Pass - R U Buckled - Guilford County Schools

Sheriff Barnes is pleased to announce... - Guilford County Sheriff's ...

 

Gov. McCrory names area officials to state school safety task force ...

Inside EF-4 tornado (190+ mph) Washington, Illinois (3:33 min video: explicit language)

E4 tornadoes (190+ mph) cut a three-mile swath (& more than 46 miles long) through Washington, Illinois about 150 miles southwest of Chicago. Authorities in Washington, IL acknowledged that they had vastly underestimated the number of homes damaged or destroyed, and revised the initial figures of 250 to 500 homes, to upward of 1,000.
Some of those belonged to the area’s 911 dispatchers, firefighters, paramedics and police officers, who are spending little time attending to their own ordeals.
“The first responders are people too, and sometimes we forget that,” Buffalo Grove Police Chief Terry Vavra said. “They had to either leave their home, and leave that devastation, or they weren’t even home when the devastation occurred.”

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Thank you for support you choose to extend: prayers, financial, ...

If you choose to share with Washington, Illinois tornado victims, the following allows total amount to be invested directly to food, etc. for children/families... no cut to administrative costs.

Check: (Tax Deductible)
Payable to: Washington Rotary Foundation

For: Washington, IL  Tornado Assistance

Mail to:

c/o: District 50 schools

Attn: Dr. Patrick Martin

304 East Almond Drive

Washington, IL 61571


Man Films Tornado Destroying His House in Washington, Illinois ...

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WASHINGTON, Ill. (AP) - The mayor of the central Illinois community of Washington says more than 1,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed by strong storms.
Mayor Gary Manier says that figure includes homes that were totally destroyed as well as properties that received minor damage. Officials still haven't said how many people in the community have been affected by Sunday's tornado. Washington has about 16,000 residents and is about 10 miles east of Peoria.
The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Washington had winds that reached 190 miles per hour. The funnel cloud cut a path more than 46 miles long, killing one person and injuring dozens more.
Across Illinois, Sunday's storms killed six people. Forecasters say there were at least 11 tornadoes that hit the state.
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Illinois woman organizes effort to get lost photos returned to tornado victims

Images for family bible found in tornado

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Washington IL tornado damage assessment starts as FEMA arrives

Best coin ever spent

Best coin ever spent.

A little girl donates some coins to a street musician and gets the best surprise in return. Well, that's certainly money well spent.

Two Wolves Inside of Me (video)

Life: a series of choices. Where you are right now can all be linked back to every choice that you've made in your life to date.

Every day we all make countless choices and every single one of them counts. That is what this short movie is all about.

Watch: Two Wolves Inside Me >>
Copyright © 2010 - 2011 flickspire

Washington Strong: 11-17-2013 Washington, Illinois tornado

Washington IL Tornado Recovery

An E4 tornado (190 mph)  cut a three-mile swath through Washington, Illinois about 150 miles southwest of Chicago. Authorities in Washington, IL acknowledged that they had vastly underestimated the number of homes damaged or destroyed, and revised the initial figures of 250 to 500 homes, to upward of 1,000.
Some of those belonged to the area’s 911 dispatchers, firefighters, paramedics and police officers, who are spending little time attending to their own ordeals.
“The first responders are people too, and sometimes we forget that,” Buffalo Grove Police Chief Terry Vavra said. “They had to either leave their home, and leave that devastation, or they weren’t even home when the devastation occurred.”

As of Thursday morning, here are the damage numbers from Sunday's tornados in Tazewell County
(posted by D. Norman from Tazewell County Board Member John Ackerman):

Tazewell County Totals: 524 homes destroyed, 554 damaged
 

Washington – 135 homes require MAJOR repairs, 491 total loss
East Peoria – 13 homes require MAJOR repairs, 21 total loss
Pekin – 25 homes require MAJOR repairs, 8 total loss
Sunnyland – 15 homes require MAJOR repairs, 4 total loss
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Thank you for support you choose to extend: prayers, financial,...

If you choose to share with Washington, Illinois tornado victims, the following allows total amount invested directly to food, etc. for children/families...no cut to administrative costs.

Check: (Tax Deductible)
Payable to: Washington Rotary Foundation

For: Washington Tornado Assistance

Mail to:

c/o: District 50 schools

Attn: Dr. Patrick Martin

304 East Almond Drive

Washington, IL 61571

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Click below: videos

* 11-21-2013 Washington IL tornado damage assessment starts as FEMA arrives (2:45 min.)

*  Washington Strong   (4:22 min.)

Put together a little slideshow/video of some of the pictures from the storm that really say it all.

* Video: Washington IL: First look at tornado strike zone on ground  (  :32)

 

* Video: Washington resident killed by tornado remembered  (2:02 min.)

* click picture

 

Teresa, one of ALE's "Boots on the Ground" team members shares the story of a family she met in Washington, IL. (1:41 min.)

Red Flags: Is your child being bullied?

According to Jerry Weichman, PhD, a licensed   psychologist who specializes in adolescence at the Hoag Neurosciences Institute in Newport Beach, California, “Kids often spend more time at school than they do at home, so it’s important that parents stay vigilant about what’s going on in their lives,” he tells Yahoo Shine. If you think your kid is being bullied at school, here are some red flags to watch for. Even one is enough to be concerned, according to Weichman.

Lashing out at home: Children understand when something feels wrong, but they may not know how to cope, says Weichman. “If your kid suddenly develops a short fuse and begins bullying siblings or a helpless family pet, it may be a learned behavior.”

Disruptive sleep or eating patterns: Anxiety disrupts the body's daily rhythms and can cause insomnia. Anxiety can also cause either an increase or a decrease in appetite, depending on the individual.

Changes in schedule: Does your kid suddenly not want to go to basketball practice anymore? Does he take a different route to school? “He may be trying to avoid someone who is bullying.

The Strange Effect of Bullying

5 Typical Behaviors of Manipulative People

Bullied Girl, Whose Brother Wrote Viral Letter to Santa, Surprised by Favorite Band