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Sunday, February 19, 2017

Parenting Tip - The Paradigm Test

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Text from my daughter to me:         "So I've been trying not to feel like a failure by choosing to run the half marathon instead ...
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Parenting Tip - Be Nice to your Future Self

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I'm basically a lazy person.  If a recipe calls for cutting an onion and garlic, I'll either skip that recipe or just use onion and ...
Sunday, January 29, 2017

Parenting Tip - Modeling

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I was babysitting Bromley, my 2 year old grandson, when he found a book lying on the floor.  It was a thick book with lots of pages and no ...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

Music Tip - Mom/tot classes starting up

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To all of you who live in Mesa, AZ, I'm starting up my Mom/tot music classes for this semester.  They will be on Tuesday mornings and...
Saturday, January 7, 2017

Music Tip - Learn to play the ukulele!

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Come learn to play the ukulele--adults and children---lots of fun!! Plus, a service opportunity as we perform for the "older generat...
Sunday, November 6, 2016

Parenting Tip - You are Brave!

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A young mom was talking to her single brother who had just sailed around the world on a sailboat by himself.  She told him how brave she tho...
Sunday, October 23, 2016

Parenting Tip - Can I say YES Now?

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In my last post I talked about how I had learned to say NO, and how good it felt.  Now let's talk about saying YES, and how good that ca...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

Parenting Tip - It Feels so good to say NO!

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During dinner several years ago, the phone rang and I answered it.  It was a teacher from my neighborhood school asking me if I could substi...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Parenting Tip - "But it's so hard!"

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I was teaching a music class with a group of children who have autism.  We had a song about following directions and had done several activi...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Parenting Tip - "Not Shrinking" is More Important Than Surviving

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Elder Neal A. Maxwell served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon) fo...
Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Parenting Tip - What are you teaching?

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Here is a great article that every parent needs to read.  The whole article is here .  The following is  an  exc...
Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Music Tip - I Will by Hilary Weeks

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Our girls who were going to girls camp this summer learned this song by Hilary Weeks.  I simplified it so they could learn to play it themse...
Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Music Tip - Someone Like You

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I just finished arranging Adele's, "Someone Like You".  If you would like my simplified arrangement of it,  Click here to get ...

Music Tip - Piano Music 7 Years

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I've been busy writing music for my piano students, that is, arranging and simplifying popular songs.  They love them.  But I've bee...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Parenting Tip - Parenting Teenagers

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 You may have already seen or heard about Josh Shipp.   I just listened to one of his videos that was posted on Facebook--the place I see ...