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2017-07-21
According to Rosemond, PROTECTION, AFFECTION & DIRECTION are the requirements for good parenting.Material and heart-felt emotional over-indulgence is creating depression, whining, entitlement addictio...
2017-07-17
When our first daughter got to age two, I decided she didn't have to go through the "no no stage". I disciplined her without using the word "no". Therefore, we avoided that no no stage, but just sayin...
2017-07-15
Seventeen-month-old Marshall visited us this week. It is easy for his parents and for Sam and me to figure out how to satisfy his simple wants. It was also relatively easy for us to feel good about sa...
2017-07-14
Keilyn is Jodilyn Nakanishi and Keith Kunimoto's daughter in Hilo, Hawaii. Sam, with his mother's Nakanishi heritage, says, "It's got to be part of our Nakanishi blood?" But visiting them on the big i...
2017-07-10
1. FINDING HAPPINESS IN THE SUCCESS OF OTHERS *Share in other’s joy 2. RELENTLESSLY SEEK NEW EXPERIENCES “Novelty seeking is one of the traits that keeps you healthy and happy and fosters personality ...
2017-07-08
We're back from an early morning walk around Mercerdale Park where all the vendors were almost set up for the crowd coming to enjoy the Mercerversary Celebration.Cars were already parked going down hi...
2017-07-04
Last Thursday my 10-year-old and 8-year-old granddaughters and I went to get a treat at the B-Street used bookstore in San Mateo. I had earlier refused to buy the $30 dragon figures at Talbot's toy st...
2017-06-27
When my Japanese mother sent me off to school and into the world she told me to: "GAMBARU". Fear is there for most new and challenging situations. In other words, "Use all the tools I have learned to ...
2017-06-20
This is an example of one of the eleven "life principles" Ike Ikeda created at his job as head of Atlantic Street Center community center in south Seattle in the 1970s. It was during a time when the p...
2017-06-15
"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken (rooster) by hatching the egg...not by smashing it." - Arnold Glasow"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes." - ...