Things to tell the kids

Things to tell the kids #5

December 10, 2011

The boys have been moving through their Kung Fu training really well over the last 2 years and recently moved into the more challenging brown belt training. At this point in training there is a lot to remember.  A great deal of focus is required to make it through the different sets of forms, styles [...]

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Things to tell the kids #4

November 22, 2011

The Two Wolves A Cherokee elder was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, “A fight is going on inside me… it is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, hatefulness, and lies. The other stands for joy, peace, love, hope, humbleness, kindness, friendship, [...]

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Things to tell the kids #3

October 25, 2011

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else – [...]

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Things to tell the kids #2

October 12, 2011

Have you ever heard the phrase “shake the dirt off of your shoulders“?  Had you heard about it prior to Jay-Z?  Me either, but I’m not going to let that get in the way of a really good lesson. The origin of this term comes from a story in which a donkey falls into a [...]

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Things to tell the kids #1

October 12, 2011

“First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I’m not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I’m not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I’m not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was [...]

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Things to tell the kids

October 10, 2011

I come across so many things that I want to share with my children.  Songs, stories and ideas about how to treat people and go about life but many times these lessons are beyond their current years or are things that will be better to reinforce over time.  Since I have a tendency to forget [...]

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