Tag: parenting

Welcome! Our presentation at the Archdiocese of Ulster County, NY has been postponed to May 29. So, we have extra time for you to send any good thoughts or prayers that you were thinking of sending our way for this event. We will be meeting with the Religious Education Directors to get some more You’re Amazing classes.

Now for this week’s story:

Now you have the knowledge that science has proven the existence of God, Multiple Dimensions, You will never die. Your actions directly affect how high your melody is. How do you use this information to raise your melody as high as possible while raising the melody of the people around you?

One of the worst things you can do to lower your melody is to harm a child. I can’t even imagine how low your melody would go and what you would have to do to get your melody back to where it was. This blog is all about our children and how this society (American public education system) is profoundly harming our children.

As a citizen of this society if you and I don’t speak up we are complicit to this harm. To illustrate this harm, I will tell you a quick story.

A number of years ago I allowed a child to go to a person’s home because they liked them. That night he harmed the child in the worst way imaginable with the exception of killing the child. Upon finding out this information, I instantly called the authorities.

When other people asked me why I was pressing charges, I looked them in the eye and said, “When I had no knowledge of what this criminal was doing, I was not responsible to any degree. But now that I have the information, I am 100% responsible for every child he hurts from here on out. I will not, under any circumstances, take that karma with me.”

With that said, prior to covid and the internet, we had no idea as an individual person what the public school system was and is doing to our children. Now that we do know, if we do not speak up, we are 100% responsible for every child they hurt.

As always, the good news is the people who live in America can educate themselves and accomplish anything. The government has no control over what you teach yourself or your kids. Also, if you have access to the internet anywhere in the world, it makes no difference what country you are in, the government cannot control what you learn. Always remember your life is yours. You’re Amazing and if you want you can make your life Extraordinary.

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I hope everyone is doing well. We received our first review on GoodReads from Soothing Rays who is a book blogger that reviews books. Here is an excerpt from her review – “My favourite part of the book was the author’s own story, which comes towards the end of the book. It was really inspiring, and I feel that everyone will have something they can take away from this book. It’s a hidden gem.” You can read the full review on GoodReads.

Lady Linda also put a profile up on Bookbub for me yesterday. We are just trying to get the message of You’re Amazing And I’ll Prove It! out to as many places as we can. Have a great week!

Now for the story:

My late wife Deb and I were having trouble getting our 4-year-old son David to behave. In order to solve this problem, we asked a local pre-school to come into our home and help us. At the same time, we enrolled David in their school, Children’s Express. He attended Children’s Express five days a week. Obviously, all the children at Children’s Express had rules they had to follow. But how do you get a 4-year-old misbehaved child to follow the rules?

First, they had to teach him the rules. I know this sounds obvious, but let’s face it, if he doesn’t learn the rules, he can’t follow them. However, shouldn’t every school make sure all the rules were known. So, knowing the rules wasn’t what changed his behavior.

The thing that led to David’s behavior changing was the next thing Children’s Express did. Children’s Express was not just a school for children who had a behavior problem. It was a school which helped children with any kind of physical or mental problem. They had kids that were in wheelchairs, children with epilepsy that wore helmets, children with Autism who could not speak. You name the challenge; they had children who had it.

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Welcome! Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Next week is also mine and Lady Linda’s 20th wedding anniversary. The weather here in the northeast is finally starting to get a little warmer. It’s great to see people out and about. As always, You’re Amazing And I’ll Prove It!

Now for this week’s story:

Not long-ago Lady Linda and I were walking down the sidewalk when suddenly she tripped on an uneven portion. When she tripped, she fell. I stood there and looked at her. Why did I not help her?

I hear the word Love all the time. I love him/her. I love my children. I love my Sister or Brother, aunt or uncle, mom or dad etc. But what is the Greatest form of Love one person can show to another?

As you probably already know Lady Linda and I had a housecleaning business for more than 20 years. Through those 20 years we had customers for years. Every week or two she and I would go into their homes and clean. Many of these customers worked from home, meaning they were home when Lady Linda and I were in their homes.

During this time of going into their homes every week or two, with them home, Lady Linda and I became like family. So much so that one cleaning day Lady Linda and I brought our 20-year-old son to help us.

The client had never met our son. When we walked in the client, a woman, was sitting in her easy chair with her robe and slippers on, drinking coffee. Her hair was disheveled, and she had no makeup on. Instantly upon seeing a stranger she jumped up, shouting “you brought company”. She ran to her bedroom, put on a nice outfit, fixed her hair, and put on makeup before we could introduce our son. Now that’s family. This gave me a fairly unique vantage point to view how different families function behind closed doors.

The first question I have is, is love politics, religion, skin color (race), or sexual preference? During the time Lady Linda and I cleaned houses our clients ran the gamut in all four categories. Politically we had everyone from devout communists to devout capitalists and everything in between. Religiously, we had Buddhists, Jewish, Christians, and Muslims. We had every skin color and as far as sexual orientation we had all walks of life in that category as well.

Every last family, we became part of, loved one another deeply. They cared about their neighbors, their town and country. There are no exceptions of any kind.

This means love isn’t politics, religion, skin color (race), or sexual preference. Then perhaps it’s taking care of each other. Also, if it is taking care of each other, what does taking care of each other mean?

Because I am 66 years old, I have a lot of reference points to answer the question, is love taking care of each other? I will continue to use Lady Linda and my housecleaning family as my reference in this blog.

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