( To continue)The entire crowd stopped dead silent. I swear you couldn't hear anything but the rain. We all stood silently. No one came or left in the next few minutes. Mom paused and thought for a moment about what she would say. Now some

Teaching Children Money Habits for Life The life-long benefits of teaching children good money habits make it well worth the effort. Children who are not taught these lessons pay the consequences for a life-time. Some parents don't teach ch

                                                 What Is SuccessWhat is success?To laugh often and much;To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;To earn the appre

Raising Children     美式教养观  The job of raising children is a tough one. Children don't come with an instruction manual. And each child is different. So parents sometimes pull their hair out in frustration, not knowing what to do.

Children need to be prepared for an earthquake as much as adults, if not more.Infants and ToddlersFor infants and toddlers, special emphasis should be placed on making their environment as safe as possible.Cribs should be placed away from w

　I am thirty-three years old，and I am so happy that I am not a mother. I do not hear a biological clock ticking，only the nerve wrecking ticks of bombs yet to explode. My friends are leaping whenever their cell phones ring.“Where are you

　　If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove m

Fathers seldom say "I love you" Though the feeling's always there,  But somehow those three little words Are the hardest ones to share. And fathers say "I love you" In ways that words can't match-- With tender bed time storie

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving."  -- Dale Carnegie If we really want to be happy, why do we act like such babies? We can claim to be proactive（有

Children whose parents are married have significantly higher self-esteem, according to research unveiled by the Marriage Foundation yesterday. The Marriage Foundation is a think-tank which aims to reduce divorce rates. Its previous research

It was Christmas 1961. I was teaching in a small town in Ohio where my twenty seven third graders eagerly anticipated th