There's No "Busy-ness" Like Slow Business! By JoJo Tabares If you have ever been on the receiving end of the kind of communication where you felt nobody took the time to listen to you, you might be tempted to utter this common phrase: "You're so broke you can't pay attention." Even before the bottom fell out of the economy, people were busy. The culture of life has changed in the last hundred years from those close-knit families who spent time with their friends and neighbors eating home-cooked meals prepared by moms who spent hours with their daughters cooking and learning together. In the modern world, moms work either away from home or from home. We don't have time to spend...
How to Win Facebook Friends and Influence Tweeple By JoJo Tabares Ever wonder why some don’t work and play well with others on Facebook and Twitter? Social media is like a virtual party where almost the same rules apply as they do in a face-to-face communication. But many people mistakenly think that, since it's online, it's ok to bend those social rules for social media. Nothing could be further from the truth. Here are some do's and don'ts...ok here are the don'ts! If you do the opposite, there are your do's. ;D 1. Don’t expect everyone to come to you. If you build it, they will not necessarily come. Just like you cannot put up a website and expect a...
According to Gertrude Stein, "A rose is a rose is a rose." Shakespeare's young Juliet tells Romeo that he is not an evil Montague, but asks "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." What IS in a name? Most parents spend nine months searching out the perfect name for their children. Why? Because going through life with the wrong name (or more to the point, a silly name), can be difficult at best and devastating at worst. Consider the song "A Boy Named Sue" sung by Johnny Cash. How'd you like to go through life trying to explain that one?! What's in a name? Who people think we are,...
Last week a very popular political figure had to be rushed to the hospital. No, he isn't a senator or congressman. He isn't even a politician. He is a conservative talk radio host. Though I prayed for his recovery, it isn't his illness that brings me to write about him today; it was the reaction of some of those who disagree with his political persuasion. It was the message they sent and the way in which they chose to communicate it. But more than anything else, it was their rush to hatred and the language of hatred that I wish to discuss. Several blogs and internet news media reported last week that Rush Limbaugh was taken to the hospital with...
Almost all parents tell me they believe communication skills are important but most have no idea to what extent. We use our communication skills thousands of times a day! Homeschooling parents use communication skills even more often. You cannot teach if you cannot communicate-PERIOD! And the more effectively you communicate with your student, the more effective a teacher you are. By the way, teaching Home Ec is probably more saturated with communication skills than other subjects you teach because you usually do it without benefit of a text relying mostly on hands on involvement as the student models or at least checks with the teacher at various times during a complicated process. It's not like math where we homeschool teachers...
