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Beer, Blaze Pink and More
Posted: July 4, 2017
Effective July 1st Virginia has some new laws that you may find of interest: The school board/principal will be required to notify the parents of children involved in any incident or allegation of bullying within 5 school days. HB 1709 School security officers can now carry firearms HB 1392. Hunters can wear pink apparel during firearms hunting according […]
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Happy Healthy Hump Day: Preventing Illness from Infection in Early Education/Child Care and Schools
Posted: June 28, 2017
Many children are enrolled in group settings from infancy. Mine were. Both were in center-based daycare/early education programs directly after my maternity leave. We were lucky. My husband worked at a hospital with a daycare center. Even so, I worried about them getting sick all the time. While you would think a hospital daycare would […]
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Happy Companies Make Loyal Employees – Problem Solving vs Opportunity Seeking; Fourth in a Series
Posted: June 27, 2017
Humans pride themselves on problem solving. Yes, it is a good thing; it comes in handy when reacting to a threat to your survival. Until recently, humans faced negatives that needed to be neutralized rather than positives to be pursued. Our emotional brain is programmed to see and fix problems. The residual of leading from fear has […]
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Happy Healthy Hump Day: A CLEAN MOUTH IS A HEALTHY MOUTH
Posted: June 21, 2017
As you know, I am a mother of two busy little bees. And, at times I have thought just for today…It would be easy to skip simple things like brushing teeth when we are late leaving for school or exhausted at bedtime. Then I realize what a lifelong impact this decision could have on my […]
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Happy Companies Make Loyal Employees – The Tribe Effect; Third in a Series
Posted: June 20, 2017
For 99 percent of human existence, we lived in small family groups or bands for foraging and hunting. These informal collections of two or three nuclear families evolved into tribes – a bit larger, less mobile and with some kind of formal leadership. For we westerners, this means extended family, clans or even small towns. […]
