1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is the process of trial-and-error and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works."
4. A lesson is repeated until learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
6. There is nothing better than "here." When your "there" has become a "here," you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."
7. Others are simply mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you make of them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie inside you. The answers to life’s questions lie inside you. All you have to do is look, listen and trust.
10. You will forget all this.

This is the season when stress starts to build, both at home and at work. The following tips can help ease you through the difficult times:

• Take care of yourself.
• See troubles as opportunities.
• Manage your time.
• Speak up.
• Plan.
• Get support.
• Enjoy your leisure time.

It is your choice. You can try to make your situation satisfying. If stress arises, you can choose to attempt a solution. There are many choices open to you. Which ones will you make?

Working with children makes us long for the good old days, when we were young and knew everything.

Good behavior begins at home. That is where parents can help children become well-adjusted, self-disciplined, law-abiding citizens. Control . . . conduct . . . rules. We know what discipline is, but it is difficult to define. Here are ten ways parents can improve discipline:

1. Be familiar with school rules and regulations and support them.
2. Take an active interest in your child’s activities, both academic and extracurricular.
3. Talk to teachers about your child’s behavior patterns.
4. When consistent discipline problems occur, talk to your child. Find out why he or she is misbehaving. Be an active listener.
5. Stress the importance of good discipline at home and at school to your child.
6. Monitor your child’s behavior at home by encouraging the discussion of daily events.
7. Be a good role model for your children.
8. Show respect for your children and they will show respect for others.
9. Encourage independence. Give your children a chance to take part in making decisions about things that affect their lives.
10. Be sure your child eats properly. Bad eating habits can cause disciplinary problems.

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The best things you can give your children, next to good habits, are good memories.