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Happy Infographic Week!
I love infographics. I think they do a great job of educating me in a way that my “visual learner” self can relate to.
This is the week before school starts for my kids. I am going to unplug for this week and spend some quality time with my family.
So, I thought, “What better time to share some of these amazing infographics I have come across lately.”
I can’t wait to get back to encouraging you guys, but while I am offline you can get your infographic fix.
ENJOY!
Happy Infographic Week!
P.S. Get ready for some sweet Back To School Content in the coming weeks!
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9 year old girl seeks to raise $300 for charity water and suddenly dies
Rachel Beckwith’s Mom Visits Ethiopia. from charity: water on Vimeo.
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Is Your Teenager a Hard Worker?
You’ve been waiting for this day for months, maybe even years!
Your child finally got on the sports team they’ve been dreaming about and tonight’s their first game. You’re so excited that you can’t even stand it!
The game begins and the team is off to a great start. They’re scoring points and seem to be having a blast. But as the game progresses you notice that the coach seems to be a bit withdrawn. He’s not really directing the team but letting them do their own thing – and it’s not working in their favor. The team begins to fall apart and the score becomes, well, a bit embarrassing. Maybe the coach will pull it together at halftime and actually start coaching the kids again. After all, that’s what he’s there for isn’t it, to coach the team?
Parents, so very often we look like this coach. We sit on the sideline and let our kids do their own thing. While we may be there with our kids during the game of life we miss the mark on sharing valuable tools to help them with life lessons.
One way can do a better job “coaching” our teenagers is to teach them to be hard workers.
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6 Birthday Party Ideas for Teenagers
“Happy Birthday!”
At some point this year you will celebrate your teenager’s birthday. Birthday parties can be a memory that can last forever and it can also easily become a train wreck.
Here are 6 thoughts for making your teenager’s birthday one to remember:
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How to Slow Down the Summer (and enjoy it!)
Soccer camp, baseball camp, vacation, summer jobs….
It’s so easy to lose our summer in the “schedule”!
Somehow, in the months of March and April, summer spread out endlessly before us. I could schedule all the camps I wanted with plenty of time left over to do the unscheduled things.
There would be plenty of days to swim and catch fireflies and sleep in. How do I forget each year that summer flies by like the wind!
I remember being young and summers never ending! How has that changed so quickly?
Now I watch my children who are now all teens or older and I realize that there were so many lazy summer days that I took for granted!
Even complained about because it was too hot or humid or buggy or ….just too something. My idea of a perfect summer evening is a glass of sweet iced tea on the porch.
My kids idea of a perfect summer night is playing Jail break with the neighborhood kids. I can listen to their laughter and imagine them one day telling their own children about those fun summer nights!
I guess my point is that we need to enjoy these summer days because they are fleeting. And that means our time to enjoy (yes, I said enjoy) our teens is also fleeting.
Purposefully, be spontaneous!
I know that sounds like such a dichotomy, but we are such an organizational society that we lose our spontaneity unless we are purposeful about it.
Schedules are fabulous tools to make our lives seem more efficient. But have you ever noticed that the best times are unscheduled events that surprise you with their simplicity? Camps are great for our kids. They give them great experience.
But have you ever listened to the neighborhood children squeal with delight because their hiding place was discovered or they were tagged with the beam of light in flashlight tag? Yes, our teens still have the ability to squeal. Just don’t tell them you heard it from me!
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