Tag Archives: Children

Na/GloPoWriMo #4: Closed For Renovation

Posted on April 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Closed For Renovationby Michael DoyleWith a startled turnLife became the strangeWith a subtle twist of fateSuddenly, plans became small changeLearning how to simply liveOur best moments in isolationAll across our land we wished to giveAs if it was all closed … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Across Our Land, American Lands, American Nation, Ask, Behind Closed Door, Belief, Best Moments, Better World, Children, Closed, Closed for Renovation, Corona, Count, Courage, Dedicatino, Dreaming, Each New Day, Easter Day, Experience, Fate, Find A Way Through, Gifted, Given Up, God's Love, Grief, Grip, Isolation, Kept In the Distance, Left Alive, Lessons Learned, Life, Lifted, Lived Safest, Lives, Living Without Masks, Lost Its Footing, Loved Friends, Meaning, Minimal Resistance, More, Na/GloPoWriMo, Never See This Again, Nightmares, No Longer Closed, One Another, Our Freedoms, Packing Up, Photograph, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Recall, Renovation, Road Trip, Safer, Semi-Legendary Plans, Simply Live, Six Foot, Small Change, Spring, Sprung, Startled Turn, Strange, Subtle Twist, Surreal, Tossed Aside, Turned Inward, Turning Toward, Un-Rung, Viral Horror, Write About | Leave a comment

The Positive and Negative Of Social Learning From Television and Other Screens

Posted on April 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

The Positive and Negative Contributions of Social Learning From Television and Other Screens: The case is, more often than not, made that social learning from television and other screens is largely negative. To the degree that the negative case … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Adults, Application, Arthur, Attention, Attitude, Bandura, Basement Price, Children, Church, Church Services, Consume, Courses, Cultivation Analysis, Culture, Documentaries, Dora the Explorer, Drawing, Education, Emotional, Fast Paced, FCC, Fine Arts, Focus, Funhouse Distortions, Grokker, Guitar Playing, Handling Emotions, Health, Humanity, Influence, Informative Content, Innovations, Landscape, Leadership, Marquee TV, Mass Communications Theory, Mass Media, Media, Media Is A Tool, Media Literacy, Modern Household, Music, National Geographic, Negative, Negative Beliefs, Netflix.com, Nicholas Johnson, Offerings, Online Experiment, Other Choices, Overall Education, Pandemic Times, Peer Interaction, Perceptions and Thoughts, Philippines, Physical, Positive, Positive Choices, Prevalent View, Profit, Public, Quizzes, Recognize, Reinforce, Screens, Selective Mirror, Selective Process, Self-Development, Sells, Sesame Street, Skills, Social Learning, Society, Sporting Events, TED Talks, Television, The Great Courses Plus, Thinking Patterns, Thought For the Day, Thrive, Topics, Use, Viewing Consumption, Viewing Habits, Well-Being, Yoga, Youtube.com | Leave a comment

Effective Communications Competence

Posted on March 31, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Ineffective Communications: Everyone knows that there is a great deal of truth to that adage about the proverbial age gap between parents and children. Imagine if you would having two budding teenagers – ages 11 and 13 and being 57 … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Adage, Age Gap, Approach, Best Practice, Children, Committees, Competence, COVID-19, Customer Service, Daughter, Decision Making, Effective Communications, Effective Feedback Loop, Experience, Eyeball to Eyeball, Fundamental, Harm's Way, How It Is Said, Impact, Individuals, Ineffective, Input, Interpersonal Communication, Listen, Management, Mentally, Mercy, Micromanage, Miscommunication, New Plan, Organization, Parent, Parents, Pressing Issue, Principles, Punitive, Quality, Responsible Thinking, Serve, Significance, Speak, Thought For the Day, Time, Truth, Unethical Communications, What Is Said, Widgets | Leave a comment

I, Noelle

Posted on December 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I, Noelleby Michael DoyleGrowing up there was nothing as pleasantAs waiting on Christmas Eve for presentsHe was like a lamb to metaphorical slaughterAs I snuck up on my Santa Claus fatherAs his daughter, there was much prideExcept for the part … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Big Year, Cheer, Children, Chimney, Choice, Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, Complete Perfection, Dasher, Daugther, Destiny, Detail, Doing Well, Father, Feeling, Getaway, God, Growing Up, Hope, Lamb, Look, Magic, Me, Merry Gentlemen, Metaphor, Morning Light, New Direction, Noelle, Phoenix, Photograph, Pleasat, Poetry and Poems, Presents, Pride, Promise, Pushed Aside, Rest, Santa Claus, Shining, Silent Night, Sled, Snowy Night, Snuck Up, Spinning, Tale, Tragic, We, Without Presents, Words | Leave a comment

Christmas Lights

Posted on December 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Christmas Lightsby Michael DoyleLooking out from the heart of the cityIt’s best to take things with humor so wittyAnd to know that children are our possibilityBecause they still see impossible things with claritySanta doesn’t have one child, he has them … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Better, Carry Your Song, Children, Christmas Lights, City, Clarity, Complete, Everywhere, Gentle Touch, Glide, Heart, Heights, Hello, Humor, Impossible, Life, Looking Out, Love, One Child, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Recall, Santa, Softly Said, Somewhere, Wit, You Belong | Leave a comment

First Principles: It Should Be Your Care, Therefore, and Mine, To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exalt Their Courage

Posted on October 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Capacity, Care, Children, Courage, Elevate, Exalt, Excel, First Principles, Grovel and Creep, Infancy, John Adams, Lives, Minds | Leave a comment

First Principles: Children Should Be Educated and Instructed In the Principles of Freedom

Posted on September 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.” – John Adams (1787)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged A Defense of the Constitutions of Government, Children, Educated, First Principles, Freedom, Instructed, John Adams, Principles | Leave a comment

When Children Speak

Posted on July 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

When our children speak, we should listen. We never know what we might learn? If nothing else how they see the world. And I can think of no greater gift than understanding the world through the eyes and hearts of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Act, Allowed, Beauty, Believe and Love, Carry On, Change, Children, Communicate, Compassion, Complicity, Even When Wrong, Eyes and Hearts, Fascinate, Find, Finding Their Way, Girls, Gone, Hearts and Minds, Heaven Above, Heritage, Hope, Intensity, Know, Lean, Left, Listen, Look, Love, Moment, No Greater Gift, Passion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Price Paid, Proud, Reason, Recompense, Reflect, See the World, Simply Young, Speak, Speak In Tongues, Strange, Study, Taught, Tell Me All, Temptation, Things Said, Truth, Unafraid, Unintended Consequence, Urge, Watch, Worthy, Wrong, Youth | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction

Posted on July 6, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Children, Children's Children, Extinction, Fought For, Freedom, Handed On, Mankind Was Free, Once Like, One Generation Away, Pass It On, Protected, Ronald Reagan, Sunset Years, Thought For the Day, United States | Leave a comment

First Principles: The Foundation of National Morality Must Be Laid In Private Families

Posted on June 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families. … In vain are schools, academies, and universities instituted, if loose principles and licentious habits are impressed upon children in their earliest years.” – John Adams (1778) … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Academies, Children, Early Years, First Principles, Foundation, Impressed, John Adams, Licentious Habits, Loose Principles, National Morality, Private Families, Schools, Universities, Vain | Leave a comment