From Scott and Sandie
June/July 2008
We’ve got a great way
for your family to spend some time together this summer while honoring those who
served our country in the military. Turn to
Preserving Veterans’ Stories in
which our daughter Helen explains how she, her brother, and her father
interviewed 35 veterans (who served in war and peace time) from our church to
capture their memories and compile them into a booklet. Learn how you and your
family can do the same thing. The booklets were presented to the families of
our church on Veteran’s Day last fall, and the voice recordings of the
interviews were downloaded onto CDs. The recordings of the 12 war veterans were
presented in person to the Library of Congress’ Veteran’s History Project when
our family traveled to Washington DC this spring. We hope that Helen’s article
inspires similar projects this coming summer – in time for Veteran’s Day 2008.
In Teaching Our Kids to Fail
Early, Often and Gracefully we are reminded how important it is for us to
let our kids have the freedom to experience failure. This informative piece
gives us some concrete ways to help our children learn to take difficulties in
stride, troubleshoot, and put set-backs in their proper context. Letting your
child make choices and suffer the consequences is very hard for parents to do,
but it is an important key to raising a resilient child.
For the first time, we have compiled a separate listing in
which churches could advertise their Vacation Bible Schools. Check out our
website for even more listings and links to websites, if available.
In the last issue, we told you we were planning to
participate in TV Turn Off Week (April 21 – 27). Well, as the dates grew
closer, the Flyers were embroiled in the first round of the playoffs. With
“screen time” banned, Scott had to visualize several games based on the radio
coverage – something he told the kids that he often had to do back in the days
before cable. Thanks to a warm spell that week, we were able to get outside and
play some softball in the yard after dinner. All in all, TV Turn Off Week was a
good reminder of all the things there are to do other than watch TV or hang out
on the computer. Still, we were glad it was only a week – especially since the
Flyers advanced to the next round of the playoffs!
Coming up in the next issue: Back-To-School, Professionals
who Care/Human Services and Support.
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