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A Family Mission Statement - Oct 23, 2014 - 9:49:12 PM
 Some time ago I attended a
Family Enrichment Seminar in Nassau during the summer. The question was asked
to write a mission statement for your life. I thought to myself that the
presenter was just being hilarious. However, he was serious about his
statement. He said it yet again; write for me a mission statement for your
life. I then begin to ask myself the question what is my mission statement for
my life? As I begin to answer this question, it was effortless for me to be
myself, and understand that every life has a mission. Fulfilling our mission is
the most essential in life.
A mission statement is
formal, short, or written statement of the purpose of a company or
organization. As I’m writing this article, I think about the Rand Memorial
Hospital. As soon as you enter the doors, you would see a...
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Mistakes Parents make with Teen Discipline - Oct 10, 2014 - 2:59:54 PM
Have you ever experienced the
result of a relationship that was broken, and asked yourself the question, where
did you go wrong?
When a relationship with whom
ever is ended, it didn’t just happen; an accumulation of events transpired and
now you are seeing the results of it.
When disruptive behavior
shows up in the lives of their children, parents seems surprised. However, it
develops when
parents lack consistency
with their children. This is one of the mistakes that parents admits to, and
can become costly in the future...
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Teaching your children delayed gratification - Oct 3, 2014 - 12:22:42 PM
My
eldest brother Elvis taught me a valuable lesson as a teen about delaying
gratification. I didn’t understand what he was teaching at that
moment in time, but I trusted him; and knew that he wanted the best for his
little brother. I was in the process of receiving a basketball scholarship to
attend college in Texas. My brother simple words were, “The girls will always be
there. When you leave and come back home they will still be around; they are not
going anywhere.”
Twenty
five years later, I met a student who was frustrated and disappointed about his
life. I asked him the simple question, why? Then he began to express himself
about what he wanted to achieve in his life. I was very impressed with his
ambitions...
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Fatherlessness, the Social Ills of Society - Sep 25, 2014 - 1:55:13 PM
Nothing
shouts so loudly about society’s success as do the lives of our
children, and the lives of our children are reflections of adult values
children have learn by observation, imitation and repetition.
Throughout
human history every powerful, wealthy nation at its pinnacle has
relinquish its responsibility to instill the principles and virtues
that made it flourish, in the generations that follow. As a result, no
society has ever survived its own success by staying on top. It has
disappeared or lost its position as a global leader. Unless parents,
Father’s in particular come and stand alongside their children and
declare them blessed, society will wither and decay...
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Children in Crisis - Sep 20, 2014 - 2:09:01 PM
A crisis usually
involves a temporary loss of coping abilities, and the assumption is
that the emotional dysfunction is reversible. If a person effectively
copes with the threat of a crisis, he or she then returns to prior
levels of functioning.
Children are resilient at heart; however they often struggle with rejection and neglect from their parents.
The
Chinese character for “crisis” is made up of two symbols, one for
despair and the other for opportunity. When doctors talk about a crisis,
they are talking about the moment in the course of a disease when a
change for the worse or better occurs. As a counselor when I talk about
marital crisis, I’m talking about turning points when the marriage can
go in either direction...
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A Championship Ring - Sep 12, 2014 - 10:01:18 AM
I was blessed by the
Lord to be given a talent to play basketball during secondary school,
high school and also to play at a collegiate level. For me, every time I
would step out on the basketball court it was to compete at my highest
level. To play basketball was one thing, but to win a championship was
another thing. I had both experiences. However, it’s so much better to
be on the winning side.
This
article was birth out of a conversation with a colleague. He made a
statement that said “I chose my family over my career.” He then later
expounded on his statement, “I was given the opportunity to make more
money and to have a position on my job but I realized that the hours of
work would interfere with spending quality time with my family...”
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