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First Principles: As Parents, We Can Have No Joy, Knowing That This Government Is Not Sufficiently Lasting To Ensure Any Thing Which We May Bequeath To Posterity

Posted on August 26, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Argument, Bequeath, Common Sense, Conceal, Debt, Do the Work of It, Eminence, Ensure, Fears and Prejudices, First Principles, Government, Hand, Joy, Know, Life, Line of Our Duty, Meanly, Next Generation, Our Children, Parents, Plain Method, Posterity, Prospect, Rightly, Sight, Station, Sufficiently Lasting, Thomas Paine | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #14: Quis ut Deus?

Posted on April 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo #14: Quis ut Deus?by Michael DoyleMay parents had their preferenceBut my life has whispered its reverenceMaybe they meant to play oracle?But like the archangel’s rhetoricalThis name is a bit battle wornAs a soldier speaks on behalf of the forlornAnd … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Archangel, Battle Worn, Believe, Dedication, Lord's Warrior, Na/GloPoWriMo, Parents, Poetry and Poems, Quis Ut Deus?, Revelation, Reverence, Satan, Scorn, Sleeve, Soldier, Song for the Sea, Truth | 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

Promises Meant To Keep

Posted on August 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Finally got to watch the redo of The Lion King. I have to say that I don’t know if it’s the passing of time or what, but, watching this again was just wonderful. I really enjoyed the show very much. Promises … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged African Plain, Birth, Blessing, Canyon Rim, Care, Fair, Falling Star, Happiness, Keep, Life, Love, Magic, Mean, Not In Vain, Parents, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promises, Reverence, Ritual, Sacred Heart, Share, Sunset, The Lion King, Youth | Leave a comment

The Moral Imagination

Posted on June 12, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

It is not enough to give to our children and our society definitions of right and wrong or normless stories and books leading to an inability to make the profound decisions needed for the better world we so desperately need. … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence, Accountability, Act, Action, Address, Bad, Banality, Best Selves, Better Path, Better World, Blame, Blur, Books, Build, Capable, Capacity, Character, Childhood, Children, Churn, Clean Cut, Commanding, Could Be, Cultivation, Deeper Truth, Defeat, Depart, Desire To Do, Difference, Earn, Education, Embrace, Emulation, Encourage, Experience, Explanation, Fascination, Form Habits, Game, Go, Good Morals, Grown, Hate, Head, Heart, Heavy Hand, Heroes, High Ideals, Home, Humanity, Ideal, Illustration, Imagination, Important, Ingrain, Innate, Just Quality, Know, Laws, Learn, Learning, Light, Love, Manner, Me and You, Mind, Moral, Moral Components, Morality, Nation, Need, Nice, Nobility, Not Enough, Obligation, Older, Onward, Open Eyes, Parents, Passing, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Poverty, Reach, Read, Reliable, Require, Richness, Right, Rules, Shelves, Should Be, Shown, Social Good, Society, Soul, Stir, Surface, Systematically, Tales, Taught, Teach, Teachers, Tending the Heart, The Rub, Train Up, Turn, Understand, Understanding, Understood, Unfed, Upright, Vice, View, Virtue, Virtuous Character, Vision, Wardrobe of Images, Ways, Worth Holding On To | Leave a comment

In A Place of Longing

Posted on May 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Augustine’s Enchiridion: In A Place of Longing by Michael Doyle I suppose there’s no sense in prolonging Stating that the gist of life is belonging The rumor has it that its in what we love And … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Abudance, Ad Men, Attitude, Awe, Bad, Battle, Belong, Bible, Bittersweet, Blind, Bonfire, Breath, Christ, Cliimb, Confusion, Connection, Crave, Dangle, Daughter, Days, Death, Dedication, Deep, Deeper Relationship, Derision, Desire, Determine, Distraction, Divinity, Do, Do Right, Double Vision, Dust, Earth, Echo, Enchiridion, Entangle, Eyes, False, Father, Feel, Fight, Fire, Forgive, Fulfillment, Fumbles, Generosity, Gift, Gist, God, God's Word, Good, Grain of Salt, Gratitude, Heart, Heaven, Heavy, His Will, Hope, Illusion, Immediacy, Integrity, Intervention, Intrude, Joy, Know, Laugh, Learn, Lesser Things, Life, Light, Listen, Live, Lives, Longing, Lose Our Way, Love, Madison, Meaning, Meant, Mere Christianity, Mindful, Mood, Parents, Permanent Vacation, Photograph, Place, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Precious, Prolong, Promise, Promises, Reflection, Rest, Rumor, Rut, Satisfaction, Self, Self Focus, Selfish, Sense, Shape, Shelf, Sight, Slight, Son, Soul, Spark, St Augustine, Storm Chase, Stumble, Subconcious, Suffer, Surround, Taste, Teach, Test, Tools, Transfix, Treasure, Truth, Understood, Vanity, Verbosity, Ways, Weary, Yoke, You | Leave a comment

Run of the Mill Hayride Halloween

Posted on October 31, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Halloween Poem #31: Run of the Mill Hayride Halloween by Michael Romani From the first snowflake that fell that day It was a near certainty that the tricks at play Would make every headless horseman see and know That this … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2019, All Hallow's Eve, Best, Brim, Candle, Candy, Candy Lovers, Child's Play, Chill, Day, Day of the Dead, Extraordinary, First Snow, Fun, Ghost, Glow, Goblin, Halloween, Handy, Hayride, Head, Headless Horseman, Hoodwink, Jack-O-Lanterns, Joy, Moment, November, Parents, Phototgraph, Play, Plunder, Poem, Poetry, Prankster, Pumpkin, Run of the Mill, Scare, Shake, Shiver, Show, Thrill, Trick, Trick or Treat, Tricks, Trickster, Way, Wink, Witch | Leave a comment

Taking Stock

Posted on September 4, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

The Summer of 1969 was a defining moment in the life of America. The currents that led to it swept away many of the traditions of the past in that season of our discontent. Taking Stock by Michael Romani Bethel, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1969, America, Art, Assassination, Bethel, Better, Beyond, Bobby Kennedy, Brotherhood, Change, Choice, Clear, Defer, Different, Disaster, Discontent, Disillusion, Dream, Edge, Flood, Generation, Groove, Happening, Ignore, Illusion, Know, Lght, Loud, Music, Nation, Notoriety, Pain, Parents, Peace, Photograph, Pilgrim, Plan, Play, Poem, Poetry, Possible, Proud, Rain, Reverent, Revolution, Satisfy, Scream, Society, Storm, Strife, Summer, Tears, Thought, Transform, Vietnam, Voice, Wrath | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: It Is Paradoxical When Parents and Teachers Fail To See the Connection Between Learning and Play

Posted on June 2, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.” – Leo Buscaglia, author (31 Mar 1924-1998)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Connection, Educator, Learn, Leo Buscaglia, Paradox, Parents, Play, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

First Principles: Parents Have A Duty To Maintain Children Decently In Accordance With Their Circumstances

Posted on August 20, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“It is the duty of parents to maintain their children decently, and according to their circumstances; to protect them according to the dictates of prudence; and to educate them according to the suggestions of a judicious and zealous regard for … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Children, Circumstances, Duty, Educate, First Principles, James Wilson, Maintain, Parents, Protect | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Parents

First Principles: As Parents, We Can Have No Joy, Knowing That This Government Is Not Sufficiently Lasting To Ensure Any Thing Which We May Bequeath To Posterity

Na/GloPoWriMo #14: Quis ut Deus?

Effective Communications Competence

In A Place of Longing

Run of the Mill Hayride Halloween

Taking Stock

Thought For the Day: It Is Paradoxical When Parents and Teachers Fail To See the Connection Between Learning and Play

First Principles: Parents Have A Duty To Maintain Children Decently In Accordance With Their Circumstances

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