One Secret to Success for a Working Mom, Expand Your Village (Jack and Jill of America)

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Jack and Jill of America member and her daughter Recently, I have become keenly aware that good kids are created by accident. They become good because someone made a concerted effort to pour positive things into them--things like, honor, discipline and respect for others. These qualities are taught through lessons and by observation. For that reason, I have been actively considering how to give my children more examples of people who embody those qualities.  Indeed, raising my children to become good people is my most important job.
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Let's Hear it for the Daddies (Happy Father's Day!)

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A Daddy and his baby 


Reading all of the Facebook tributes to fathers got me thinking about the men in my life who have stepped up and showed out--showing other fathers how it's done. Any man with sperm can "donate" sperm to make a baby. However, only those with courage demonstrate the love and support that goes along with being a father.  So, I salute all of those guys who took the road most traveled, but fraught with turns and bends in the undergrowth.


Those men make their kids feel loved. And they do the job every single day. 


I love reposting a poem from a prior Father's Day that I wrote because it captures my feelings about fathers. Fathers help make the world go 'round and make all of the babies feel loved and discover their potential. Let's hear it for the daddies!!!


Let's Hear it for the Daddies (Happy Father's Day!...: Daddy on Duty An Ode to Fathers... 1. Let’s hear it for the guys who try really hard only to get chastised by the women in their l...

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