ELIZABETH MURPHY

Meet, Greet – Repeat – Sweet!

Children need to feel welcomed when they enter a room. If ignored, it can inadvertently send the signal that the person is not welcome or worse, not even noticed. This applies at home as well as at school We greet with words, with actions, and with nonverbal body and eye language. Does anyone remember the clever hand greeting between Annie James and her chauffeur in the movie, Parent Trap? Her…
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It’s Your Turn to do the Dishes

When two siblings have the same family chore to do at different times it is easy to observe how each person approaches the task in different ways. Our family’s task…

Help or Hire

Children love when we wait on them hand and foot. Actually, who doesn’t? Sometimes without meaning to we inadvertently encourage children to have feigned helplessness because we rush to help…

Failure is not an option-or is it?

In the movie Apollo XIII, when the NASA team on earth was trying to determine a way to get the astronauts home, the team leader says to the group, “Failure…