Posts Tagged ‘ children ’

The Business of Happiness: 6 Secrets to Extraordinary Success in Life and Work

The Business of Happiness: 6 Secrets to Extraordinary Success in Life and Work

I really enjoyed reading this book… I had recently watched an episode of C-Span Book TV (http://www.booktv.org/) where two authors discussed Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and I was amazed at finding out how this man writing a couple centuries ago about what really makes people happy (he was a moral philosopher before being a political economist ) got it right for us today!  My review is coming next… Starting with a list of 101...

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Grandparents and Children’s Learning…

Grandparents and Children’s Learning…

I wanted to share this great post with other grandparents… You can  read the rest of this very interesting story ‘Kids Tutoring Kids’ at Meryl’s Blog  Meryl says: I coach a Science Olympiad team and this year our B team (or JV team) was short on members. The 3rd grade sister of one of our A team members volunteered to take on the Fossils event. Typically Science Olympiad team members are 6th grade and above, but as...

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How to Stop Worrying About Making Enough Money

How to Stop Worrying About Making Enough Money

Napoleon Hill alludes many times in his book to that ‘money making secret that has made fortunes for more than five hundred exceedingly wealthy men’, but it seems that he believed that the readers should discover the secret themselves by studying his book, he seemed to believe readers should be ready to really understand the concept of visualizing goals and plan the action steps needed to produce results. The movie, The Secret, is all over...

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Happy Birthday at Grandma and Grandpa’s House

Happy Birthday at Grandma and Grandpa’s House

I want to share a website I just found… it caught my grandmother’s eye because one of my great grand-babies just turned one recently and I wish I had seen Elsie’s original birthday party ideas at the time… We as grandparents have a chance to experiment with home made plans before the children get to the age of about 4 or 5 where they are caught up in some high intensity commercial planning… even then I still think that...

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