: About Me

Words and I have had a long romance, going back as far as I can remember. Writing is something that has given me pleasure and intellectual stimulation for years now, and I look forward to honing and fine-tuning my skills here, thanks to the helpful rating system and feedback from other writers.

The opportunity to be published is very appealing to me, regardless of the fact that writing has always been a secret love, nothing that I've pursued professionally. What if nothing I write is ever rated highly, chosen for publication of some kind, or applauded as a great work? That's simply my motivation to improve what I do, to read more and more articles written by others, and honestly, it's secondary to the pleasure I get from writing.

Where do I find motivation and inspiration now? Life is full of experiences, and if I live to be 100 I know there will be things that I still haven't learned. We can only take what we do know, and do all we can to learn all we can about our passions.

My life as a stay at home mother of four fills my days with ideas for articles and stories and testimonies, and pushes me to make myself more knowledgable about just about everything so that I may pass on what I know to my children.

My passion is ...

my children

I know too much about ...

nothing .. it's not possible to know too much about things you love.

My parents always told me ...

to close the door, I wasn't raised in a barn.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a teacher.

My favorite memory ...

is my wedding day.

Why I write ...

because I love putting my thoughts into words, the challenge of expressing what I think in the best way I can.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

'White Oleander' by Janet Fitch

My first job ...

was at McDonalds. Isn't everyones?

Parenting & Pregnancy > Helping Kids Cope The pros and cons of children watching the daily news

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The daily news is no longer a place to catch up on what events are scheduled to occur in your area, but rather a recap of the worst events to have taken place over the past few days. If your local news is like ours, the first half of the news is hit or miss, sometimes completely inappropriate for younger children, sometimes perfectly safe to watch regardless of your child's age. The second half is weather and sports, a safe area for viewers in all age groups. Depending on your child's age, you may want to avoid the news until your child is asleep. Does my four year old need to hear how a p...

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