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By Dr James Dobson We can learn a valuable lesson from the glider pilots who soar through the skies. From my office, I can see air force pilots train. The yellow training gliders have immense wing spans and seem to ride the wind effortlessly. But eventually, the pilots exhaust the currents and they have to come down. The only way they can soar again is to be tethered behind a powered aircraft . If the trainee in the glider didn’t accept help, he would never get off the ground. Yet if that student remained tethered to the tow plane, there would never be a successful flight . Author and single mum Sandra Aldrich refers to this delicate balance in her book From One Single Mum to Another. She said: “In the early days of our singlehood, it’s often difficult to find the balance between letting friends help and leaning on them.” It’s a tough balance to be sure, but perhaps this picture of a glider being pulled aloft will encourage single parents to accept help when it’s needed and...

Image via Wikipedia By Dr James Dobson Have you had any spare time lately? I really doubt it. Our lives are jammed to the point that there’s no room for anything extra or surplus. That reminds me of a wonderful story about Frank Lloyd Wright , the famous architect . When he was just nine years old, he went walking one winter day across a snow-covered field with his reserved no-nonsense uncle. As the two of them reached the far end of the field, his uncle stopped him. He pointed out his own tracks in the snow. They were straight and true as an arrow’s flight. And then he pointed out young Frank’s tracks meandering here and there all across the field. “Notice how your tracks wander aimlessly from the fence to the cattle to the woods and back again,” his uncle said. “And see how my tracks aim directly to my goal. There’s an important lesson in that.” Well, to his dying day, Frank Lloyd Wright remembered that lesson, but not the way his uncle intended. He used to say with a twinkl...

Image via Wikipedia From Dr James Dobson A mother once related an incident which occurred when she was taking her three-year-old son to a nursery school for the first time. Another mother was also arriving with her twin girls, and as they walked into the centre, the director just got very excited about the beauty of the little girls. "Oh, my!" she said, "Your girls are just gorgeous!" Well, the first mother said that there were 15 other children who were standing around the room, watching and listening to their teacher, and you can believe they learned something that day, about the values of the culture . A bright preschooler is fully capable of thinking, "No one ever says that to me. It must be important to be pretty." Indeed, research has demonstrated that by the age of three, those who are physically attractive already enjoy greater popularity among their peers. Those youngsters who are not admired by their peers are often troubled by that fact from...

Image via Wikipedia By Dr Bill Maier We all know there's a lot of bad stuff on the Internet, but what about the good stuff? With all the talk about the dangers of the World Wide Web , you would think it has no redeeming qualities. But that is just not true. There are millions of great sites set up to help children learn about and explore the world around them. And just about any question they have can be answered with a few clicks of the mouse. You say your boy loves lizards ? You wouldn't believe how much information is on the Internet about lizards! Everything from proper care and feeding to picking the right breed. Want to teach your daughter origami ? All you need to get started is right online and easy to find. Obviously, it's important to be careful because there's a lot of dangerous stuff out there. But with a monitoring and the right software filters in place, a little imagination can go a long way. From TODAY, Voices – Wednesday, 17-Jun-2009 Related articles ...

Image by supa m.b. via Flickr By Dr James Dobson Suppose a complete stranger comes to your door and tells you, "You look tired, why don't you just leave the children with me?" I doubt many of you would say: " Great Idea , come on in!" When we leave our children in front of the television , we're giving over control of them to complete strangers. That's a risky thing to do. An increasing number of studies have found that violence on television frequently leads later to aggressive behaviour by children and teenagers. One of the most conclusive studies was conducted by Dr Leonard D Aaron. His studies showed that the more frequently the participants watched violent television at the age of 8, the more serious were the crimes that they were convicted of by the age of 30 and the more aggressive was their behaviour when drinking. It is time for parents to control the amount and the content of television their children are watching. The consequences of not do...