Our Kids Are Always Listening

A woman invited some people from church to dinner. At the table, she turned to their six-year-old daughter and said, "Would you like to say the blessing?"

"I wouldn't know what to say," the girl replied.

"Just say what you've heard Mommy say before," the wife answered.

The daughter bowed her head and said, "Lord, why on earth did I invite all these people to dinner?"

Laughter Is Good for Your Heart

We all need a daily dose of chocolate and chuckles, according to this heart doctor. Good, brief video on the health benefits of laughing. 

"They say laughter is the best medicine. Kasey-Dee Gardner finds out if that's true." http://news.discovery.com/videos/why-tell-me-why-laughter.html 

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Laughter and Listening

"Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything." - Herbert Gardner

Boring Subjects or Boring Teachers?

Here's one of my favorite quotes on education. "There are no boring subjects; just boring teachers."

It would be great if every student came to every class, and to every subject, with a burning passion to learn. But they don't. And we can't expect them to. It is the teacher's responsibility to make the subject interesting. As teachers, we can hold ourselves responsible to transfer our passion to our students. If we don't have passion for the subjects we teach, we shouldn't be teaching. We cannot impart what we do not possess.

Someone has said, "Set yourself on fire and people will come to watch you burn." Anybody have a match?

A Fool and His Money

M.A.D. Humor Quote:
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody. Adlai Stevenson