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Down Syndrome & Inspiration
I learnt about Down Syndrome first hand during my first year of university. I was working with a child with Down Syndrome during my work experience. At first, it was scary and I felt devastated. After...
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National Teacher Appreciation Day
National Teacher Appreciation Day was this week on May 7 2013. This is a wonderful idea. Teachers deserve much more appreciation than they currently receive. Teaching and education are the tool and the...
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Happy Affirmations: Happy Beliefs
I have written a lot about affirmations in this blog, mainly because I believe they are very important for our health and wellbeing. You can sit down with a person for 10 minutes and tell if his/she is...
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Healthy Affirmations: Healthy Body
In the last chapter of the affirmation series, I explained why it is important to adopt good beliefs about the world around us. What we think of our body and about its health is very important to the...
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Good Relationship with Loving Affirmations
Relationships and the way we connect with others are very important and essential to our happiness and success in life. Research shows that people who are in good relationships are healthier, happier...
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Strong Affirmations: High Self-Esteem
Self-esteem is something that functions like fuel to the body. If we have high self-esteem, the ride is better in many ways. We move forward more smoothly, we have fewer problems and we get to our...
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Self Love Affirmations
Love is important and it takes up lot of our energy. We want to love and be loved in return. I think of love as a battery. When we have love, we feel powerful, energetic, optimistic, creative and...
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100 Tips for a Happy and Healthy Life
Everyone wants to have either a happy and healthy life or a healthy and happy life, in these orders. I think of happiness as a very inclusive concept: I want to be happy with my health, happy with my...
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Helping Kids Build Healthy and Powerful Character Traits
Many parents talk to me about their kids' character traits and behavior. "He is a stubborn kid. He was always stubborn" or "She is a nag. She nagged from the first day she came home". I wonder how much...
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25 Affirmations to Say to Yourself in the Mirror
I love mirrors. I love them because they help us learn things about ourselves and they have the power to change the inside by looking at the outside. What we tell ourselves in front of the mirror has a...
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Compliments: Give to Receive
Giving and receiving compliments are very important communication skills that boost our self-confidence and the confidence of the people around us. We grow up in a society that struggles with giving...
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How to Accept Compliments with Grace
As I said in Compliments: Give to Receive, most people don't receive many compliments, because they don't give many compliments to others, and this is caused by not feeling good about themselves. I...
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Ronit’s Compliment List
Since I wrote the first chapter of the compliment series, I have received some requests from readers to give them some ideas about compliments, so I thought it may be a good exercise to make a...
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Eddie the Eagle: Determination and Great Parenting
Watching the movie Eddie the Eagle this week made me think again about my own children and the many children I work with. I realized that no one ever gets to the top, whether it is a top in a ski...
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Children with the Auditory Communication Style
In my child assessments, I check children's communication styles. I have been doing this for so long that my family members can sometimes identify the kids with auditory communication style right...
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Blessings for You
I think of myself as very fortunate, because I have found a profession that is a purpose and does not feel like work at all. I discovered my purpose 32 years ago when I started my Special Education...
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I’m Disappointed in You!
Think of the last time anyone said to you, "I'm disappointed in you". How did that make you feel? Being disappointed is part of life. I guess it is one of the greatest challenges in life. Realizing...
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Best Family Quotes by Virginia Satir
The family quotes in this post were written by Virginia Satir, the mother of Family Therapy. I appreciate her and have learned a lot from her over the years, and some of her best quotes hang where I...
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