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October, 2006

New Initiative Will Fund School-Based Mental Health Services for Children and Youth

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) today launched a new program to support partnerships between schools and mental health service providers to reduce emotional and behavioral problems among children in low-income, refugee and immigrant-dense communities. 
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Winners or Whiners

I knew that by saying, "We’re winners, not whiners" to my daughter every time she whined it would become ingrained in her and she would come to realize she had the power to choose her words and her mental state. "If you’re not happy about something we can talk about it," I would tell her, "but whining doesn’t accomplish anything."

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Fear: The Great Innovation Killer

The longest running global pandemic ~ Fear. It can keep you alive. And it can kill you. It’s a powerful, unpleasant emotion that causes us to pay attention to our surroundings with great vigilance so that we can react as quickly as possible to any potential danger coming our way before it’s… TOO LATE!  That vigilance keeps us alive.

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A Fifth of American Kids Projected to Become Obese

A report released on September 13 called "Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: How Do We Measure Up?" states that if strict measures are not implemented, in just four years over 20 percent of American children will be obese.

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Beauty is that indescribable essence that transends all physical limitations.  Altho' it is often first perceived in the physical, it soon becomes wisdom and movement unto itself, enriching us all whenever it chooses to grace our presence.

 

UNDERSTANDING WOMEN
(A MAN'S PERSPECTIVE)
"I know I'll never understand women.
How can they take boiling hot wax,
pour it onto their upper thighs, rip the
hair out by the root,
and still be afraid of a spider?"
 

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Bright Horizons
 

The courage that counts is the courage of the everyday.  Most of life is putting one foot in front of the other.  Big leaps have received far too much press.   ~Anne Wilson Schaef,  Women Who Do Too Much

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Vacations and Retreats
 

FLOWERPOT FILTER:

Before placing soil in a clay or plastic flowerpot, place a paper coffee filter on the bottom of the pot to prevent the soil from escaping through the drain hole.



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