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Homesick or Kidsick: The Catch-22 of Online Summer Camp Photos | Campfire Stories for Parents

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Campfire Stories for Parents. Homesick or Kidsick: The Catch-22 of Online Summer Camp Photos. Here is my no-nonsense, cut-to-the-core take on how parents should view online photos from camp this summer! First, though, I want to frame the issue. The subject of homesickness is quite mainstream – the so-called affliction is almost a rite of passage. We expect kids to miss home – if not their parents, then their pillow or their pet. But kidsickness is a whole different story! Know that the feeling is normal.

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Herpcrazie: April 2010

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My personal rant on being a mom, knitting, pets, biology, and anything else my pretty little head comes up with. Friday, April 2, 2010. Brendan's first basketball game:. Running drills at basketball practice:. Celebrating his 7th birthday at school:. Liam in the daycare play yard:. At the creek behind our house:. Roaming the wild open space by the creek (well, HE probably thinks that):. Watching dad and Brendan playing basketball:. Why won't Ozzy let me touch him? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Herpcrazie: September 2010

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My personal rant on being a mom, knitting, pets, biology, and anything else my pretty little head comes up with. Monday, September 20, 2010. Brendan enjoying the smaller non-vertebrate members of the show. Liam wondering what the heck this thing is! Snakes, snakes, so many snakes! Liam getting a better view than he's used to. One of the many strikingly-colored chameleons. Brendan stared at this display silently for several seconds. I wonder what was going on in his mind? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Herpcrazie: November 2009

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My personal rant on being a mom, knitting, pets, biology, and anything else my pretty little head comes up with. Monday, November 9, 2009. An update on our family. Marc and Brendan playing "football" yesterday. The rules they play by seem to mostly involve who can tickle the other the most. Liam dressed up for Halloween. We took him to a few of our neighbors to say hello. Brendan decided he wanted to stay home and pass out candy, so that's all the trick or treating we did this year. I am a native Texan, ...

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Overparenting – Can You Resist its Forces? | Campfire Stories for Parents

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Campfire Stories for Parents. Overparenting – Can You Resist its Forces? Overparenting: It’s not a new topic for me, but it certainly is a favorite one! I think that’s because I was guilty of it in its earliest and more benign form more than three decades ago – long before the term was coined or equipment such as baby kneepads or “Hi Mom” webcams were invented. And that fear is doubled-edged: we’re talking fear of failure as well as of physical danger. The liberating thing about that so-called limitation...

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Emotion Coaching | Campfire Stories for Parents

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Campfire Stories for Parents. Simple modifications in our approach to raising children can make us significantly better parents and our children substantially happier and more successful. Two sea-change books of Dr. Spock proportions, spanning 25 years, are among the works that help tell the story: “Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More Than IQ” by Daniel Goleman. And “Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children” by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. Explains, “We buy into the importance of ha...

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September | 2010 | Campfire Stories for Parents

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Campfire Stories for Parents. Monthly Archives: September 2010. Longer School Year is Not the Answer. While our nation is engaged in a conversation about education reform, I thought this was the right time to highlight what is right with America’s education: camp. In no way is this intended as a political commentary, but rather as an endorsement of the camp experience as a valuable component of a child’s total education. As a longtime camp professional, who has literally thousands of anecdotal stories to...

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August | 2010 | Campfire Stories for Parents

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Campfire Stories for Parents. Monthly Archives: August 2010. A recent article, Can You Hear Me Now? Not if You’re at Summer Camp,. Quotes a mom saying that she would pay extra for a tech-restricted camp experience! She explains that the first time she took her son to camp, he was on his iPod Touch the entire car ride, but the second time they made the drive, he didn’t even bring it in the car. Here’s the good news, though: Not only do you not need to rescue your camper, you shouldn’t! And you definitely ...

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Camp Provides the 4th “R” – Relationships | Campfire Stories for Parents

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Campfire Stories for Parents. Camp Provides the 4th “R” – Relationships. I knew it, even though I couldn’t prove it on my own. So, on behalf of parents everywhere, I’d like to thank the National Institutes of Health for its banner finding. It’s important news – children who have quality child care experiences do better academically in later years. It goes something like this:. 8220;Why would I send my child to camp when I can be home with him, and we can spend quality time together? Children need to mast...

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“Oh, the Places You’ll Go” | Campfire Stories for Parents

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Campfire Stories for Parents. 8220;Oh, the Places You’ll Go”. Have you heard the term “self-esteemia”? If it sounds like a disease, it actually is! While self-esteem is characterized by being a good person, self-esteemia is marked by an inflated opinion of oneself that has more to do with feeling good than necessarily being good. The difference between the two is more than an “i” and an “a.”. 8220;You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction y...Today...