Category Archives: Parenting

promises kept and broken

Posted on August 2, 2015 by bobbietaylor

As a consumer, have you ever felt cheated by products that didn’t live up to their advertised features and benefits? Even the youngest consumers can experience the kind of disappointment which turns to resentment—for the company/product that perpetrated the duping … Continue reading →

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“sticks and stones”

Posted on July 19, 2015 by bobbietaylor

Remember the childhood ditty that well-intentioned grownups encouraged us to say in response to our playmates’ verbal taunting or teasing? “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me…” I was thinking about the implications of … Continue reading →

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To those who would be fathers

Posted on June 21, 2015 by bobbietaylor

It’s another one of more than five dozen Father’s Days I’ve been alive to celebrate, and I’m thinking about Our Heavenly Father, and wondering why it never occurs to me to reach out to Him in special loving gratitude this … Continue reading →

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Finding out…as in Galatians 1:15

Posted on June 14, 2015 by bobbietaylor

Yesterday was the feast of St. Anthony of Padua, whom devotees—like me–call upon to help recover lost items, trying our best, I suppose, not to do so superstitiously. And I’m wondering how it is that sometimes we find things that … Continue reading →

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Deaf ears…Speak, Lord….

Posted on June 7, 2015 by bobbietaylor

“Please sit safely.” …”Please put your toys away…Now.” …”Please stop talking.” Over the years, words I’ve spoken as teacher or parent to children over whom I have had authority and responsibility often have fallen on so-called “deaf ears.” Which brings … Continue reading →

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as if for the first time….

Posted on May 24, 2015 by bobbietaylor

An author by desire and an educator by profession,  I  love words. I love to play with words. I love to notice things about words–although not just  about words. Yesterday, when I was scanning with a bar code scanner a … Continue reading →

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