Wisdom Wednesday 3

 

Wisdom Wednesday 3

My friend, Diana Ritchie, has the following as her Favorite Quotation on her Facebook page (Thank you, Diana!). I'd like to bring it out and share it with the rest of my friends. It obviously is not new, but I think it SAYS A LOT, to me, at least. I hope it is meaningful to you, today, as well.

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."

Christopher Morley
US author & journalist (1890 - 1957)


Whether you agree with Christopher Morley, or not, at least notice this:

READ, every day
THINK, every day
DO, every day

This is a pretty neat prescription for a GOOD LIFE!


Families are Forever!  ;-)

Wisdom Wednesday 2 - What we can continue to learn from Mister Rogers

What we can continue to learn from Mister Rogers

As part of my continuing study of family communications, I get a regular email from Mister Rogers Professional Development: Helping Adults Who Help Children. It is also useful as a older grandparent with very young grandchildren.

This month, Hedda Sharapan, Director of Early Childhood Initiatives, shared some highlights of a recent presentation on Emotional Inelligence:

• Help children know that feelings are natural and normal - and sometimes hard to deal with
• Let children know they have ways to manage their feelings
• Recognize that different strategies work for different children
• Choose healthy ways
• Ask the children - what helps you?

For more from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, visit Family Communications, Inc. at http://www.fci.org/

Families are Forever!  ;-)

Wisdom Wednesday 1

 

Wisdom Wednesday 1

I would like to support the new Daily Blogging Theme of Wisdom Wednesday, as an occasional alternate to Wordless Wednesday. Thanks to Thomas at GeneaBlogers for sharing this new theme from Jennifer Geraghty-Gorman of the On a flesh and bone foundation: An Irish History.

I'll start off with a pretty simple story, but no less significant, for me. My Dad never offered a whole bunch of "advise" - so when he did, I tended to listen.

Out on the farm, home from college one weekend, late Freshman year, as I recall, I must have been complaining about a Chemistry class. I loved math and physics; I was a good student, and liked most classes. Chemistry and I, however, never got along very well, even in High School. His advise, "You have to be there anyway, right? It is required? If you have to be there anyway, you might as well do your very best at whatever it is!" Simple, and to the point. Thanks, Dad!  ;-)

Over the ensuing 50 or so years, I suppose I've shared that advise with a hundred others, or more, mostly students of mine, of various stripes, when they were discouraged. It always seemed to have a very positive ring, in any environment.

Families are Forever!  ;-)