Enriching the Soil of Your Life
Dear Mama, if it is difficult for you to find wholesome, engaging books for young boys, look no further. Virginia Lee Burton to the rescue!
Virginia Lee Burton’s children’s books are just the thing to acquaint boys and girls (but especially boys) with the wonderful world of books. And her books seem to not have an set age range…even older boys and every adult I know who has read one becomes engrossed in the pathos of the story and detailed illustrations!
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Mom, you do not struggle alone. My story of infertility and late pregnancies at 40 (we lost one twin) and at 42 (we had twins) made me instantly identify with the following story and want to share it here. Thank you, Jeanne Harrison, for giving courage and insight.)
About a year ago, a friend called to tell me about her pregnancy. “That’s wonderful!” I exclaimed. “But . . . are you okay? You sound sad.”…
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How foods with hidden additive ingredients affect children’s behavior has been weighing on my mind as I’ve watched Mamas struggle with increasingly belligerent and aggressive kids.
This topic is just too important to ignore.
My heart aches for the struggling Mamas who feel much of this is beyond their control because they have been coerced by social pressures to turn over control of their child’s diet, education and health to others.
You are enough Mama. Trust the intuition God gave you and go against the status quo! The next generation is counting on us!!
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Have we forgotten the pap smear (pap test) in our routine women’s health arsenal? As a medical person, I keep abreast of things like this, and I don’t hear about pap smears anymore…have you? From age 25 to 55, I had one every 3-5 years.
However, in the last 15 years, I have seen ads for Gardasil vaccines (and flu shots) pretty much everywhere…
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As a foreigner living in Azerbaijan, a small country about the size of Maine in Central Asia, one of the first things you learn is that you can’t wear shoes in the house.
Because most houses don’t have central heating, the floors tend to be cold, which according to most Azeris is the cause of most illnesses. So upon visiting someone’s home, you are presented with options of slippers to wear that may have been worn by the last 50 house guests with various smelly feet… …
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When I was in first grade, Mrs. Scherger, my soon-to-be 2nd grade teacher told me, “Here at Trinity, we learn cursive in 2nd grade, so starting next year, you’ll be able to read anything written by anyone, even the Constitution.” That was an exciting, mysterious prospect to me because at that time all I knew was the print in my readers.
And for some time now, under the Common Core State Standards Initiative for “best educational practices”, it states that “cursive is no longer required to be taught” and instead will be replaced by keyboarding.
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