Learning limits and self control.
May 29th, 2010 by John Creighton in WarmUp
Tags: Culture, Parenting, Social Media, Technology
Some rough thoughts to warm up on a Saturday morning… How do you teach your children self control? How do you help your children set limits so they don’t get “too much of a good thing?” If there is one thing that is more difficult for parents of this generation to instill in their children than previous generations, perhaps limits and self control are it. Setting limits on TV, computer, food, consumption in general is a daily issue now. Not [...]
Read more...Open letter to CBS: Show families respect
March 12th, 2010 by John Creighton in Dispatches
Tags: Civility, Parenting, Sports
Dear CBS Executives, I love March Madness on CBS Sports. My wife and I will be watching your network for hours and hours over the next three-plus weeks. Our children will be watching, too. The NCAA tournament is a family affair. I am fortunate my alma mater, the University of Kansas, has another good team this year. The schools my wife attended — Kansas State University and the University of Maryland — are competitive this year, too. Our kids get [...]
Read more...Sorrow Is Our Evidence of Joy
December 13th, 2009 by John Creighton in Snapshots
Tags: Family, Friends, High Plains Bank, Parenting
I carried you for nine long months I cherish the close hour when we made you I anticipated with joy your first cry of birth A cry that never came These are a few lines from a poem read at a funeral I attended in Byers, Colorado yesterday. There are few things more sorrowful than the death of a child. As a parent, it is not something you even want to imagine. We have a few friends (and friends of [...]
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