I hope you enjoyed Communication Effectiveness Month. We talked about how communication skills affect just about every aspect of our lives from our parenting to our marriages and from our friendships to our careers. If you'd like to assess your communication skills, here is a communication quiz I designed years ago. I've copied part of it here, but you'll see a link to the rest of it at the bottom of this post. Communication Assessment Quiz Check your CEQ: Communication Effectiveness Quotient. 1. How often do you feel intimidated by someone? Always Often Occasionally Rarely Never 2. How often does intimidation prevent you from speaking up? Always Often Occasionally Rarely Never 3. Do you shy away from conflict? Always Often...
Today is Memorial Day so I'd like to start off by saying thank you to all our military and their families and to honor all those who gave the ultimate sacrifice to keep us free! The last Monday of the month is usually reserved for your comments and questions. This Monday is a bit different in that I'm going to focus on the one question I have received over the years from homeschoolers. It fits right in with my "A Question of Homeschooling" series of articles so this week I'd like to help homeschoolers answer the question, "Do you KNOW anything?" One of the issues homeschoolers have to deal with is the random quizzing of our children and the questions...
Ok so it's December 1st, 2009. Wasn't it just January? Come to think of it...wasn't it just 1995...about two years ago? The older I get, the faster time goes by. As my father always says, "Tempus certainly does fugit!" They say time flies when you're having fun, but I don't remember having THAT much fun! So how does this happen? How do you go from being a young girl without a care in the world one moment to a 47 year old mother of a college girl and a homeschooled 10 y/o son the next? As Lucy used to say, "Whahappen?" So Christmas must be around 2 oclock today and 2010 is probably being held on Friday! Are you ready?...
All this week I'm talking about social networking with Facebook. One of the things that dominate Facebook are the quizzes and 5 Things About Me! Some people love them and some try to avoid them like the plague. lol But since it is part of the culture of Facebook, I thought I'd do my own Facebook Quiz or 5 Facebook Things About Me. Feel free to post your answers here as a blog comment. If you want, you can post your answers on your Facebook page and reference this blogpost. Facebook Quiz/5 Facebook Things About Me 1. What is listed in your Facebook Bio? 2. Do you take Facebook Quizzes? 3. Do you like the Facebook applications? Have you ever...
Extra!! Extra!! Breaking Word News!! This just in from the Rather Be Writing blog! Dr. Word Wielder has a special word lesson for you over on Rather Be Writing today! Dr. Word Wielder is the most articulate word teacher on the net. Here are Dr. Word Wielder's Quick Quiz Questions: "The quandary can be quelled by calculating the qualifying answers and inserting them into a post in your que of blog entries. Then the readers shall reappear here to respond with a link to the web address wherein you have posted your response to these questions. Return again and read the Exam Explanations and Answers which I shall record on this page in a day or so. 1. Hectic or...
