Month: September 2012

What is “Horse Sense”?

Sep 28, 2012

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by

Laurie

in The horses

I always love it when I discover that a saying such as “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” has a meaning that I didn’t even know about! This saying originated because you can tell the age of the horse by its teeth, so looking in the mouth means you are questioning the value…
How what we expect from our kids helps to determine what we get

Sep 17, 2012

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by

Laurie

in Children’s issues, Teens

Well, I haven’t posted anything in such a long time, but this story on NPR this morning was one I just had to share. The fact is that what we expect from kids and how we respond to them makes all the difference in the world in what we get for behaviors. This is true at…