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PD Tool Card: Mirror by Rational Jenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting This week's card is one of my favorite parenting tools! It's easy to do, it's easy to do respectfully, and it is a way for me to remain disentangled from unnecessary battles. ... Read on »

Happy Birthday to Me! by Rational Jenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting We are back from our lovely weekend at the cabin! Personally, I think birthdays ought to transcend just the special date (yesterday) and should include the day or two before a ... Read on »

Good Things, Holiday Edition (Brought to you by Procrastination) by Rational Jenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting First, before this thought falls out of my head and I forget to mention it, check out the 123rd edition of the Objectivist Round Up, hosted by my friend C. August! Guaranteed ... Read on »

Revelation of the Day by Rational Jenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting My sweet little daughter is really really smart. She reads and can do all kinds of math and knows everything there is to know about dogs. And yet, she can hardly walk through ... Read on »

Another Bloggy Milestone by Rational Jenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting Today, according to Sitemeter, I reached 75,000 hits! Lucky # 75,000 was a visitor from Rangoon, Myanmar. Pretty cool. In honor of this occasion, and partly inspired by some ... Read on »

Joke(s) of the Day by Rational Jenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting Morgan:"Knock knock!" (Okay, see? Here's the thing. My kids do NOT understand the point of knock-knock jokes.)Me:"Who's there?" M:"Banana." (ESPE ... Read on »

Funny Conversation of the Day by Rational Jenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting The kids and I always have the most interesting conversations in the car. Here's a taste of our conversation on the way to Taekwondo, as faithfully as I can render it. I even ... Read on »

Non-Punitive Discipline Keeps Me Honest by Rational Jenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting I've mentioned many times that my using Positive Discipline strategies with my kids is good for me, too. I think PD is great for my kids, and they are the primary concern here ... Read on »

Objectivist Round Up #122 by Rational Jenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting Welcome to the 122nd Edition of the Objectivist Round Up! This week's Round Up might also be known as the Better Late than Never Edition, or possibly the Brought to You by Tec ... Read on »

My Day in Tweets by Rational Jenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting I had a fun day on Twitter, so I thought I'd share. It started off like this: Really need to get going on some housework, but flirting with my hubby on the email instead. :o) ... Read on »

Eric Daniels at UGA! by Rational Jenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting This just in (via the Ayn Rand Institute ): The Morality of CapitalismWho: Dr. Eric Daniels is a research assistant professor at Clemson University’s Institute for the S ... Read on »

Sigh. Cable. by Rational Jenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting The Cable Peopleguy is coming this afternoon. I'm not sure how I feel about it actually. We ditched satellite last February, the day after the Super Bowl, to save money and g ... Read on »

Soldiers on Saturday! by Rational Jenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting Wow. It's as if the Peopleguys at the Southern Museumof Civil War and Locomotive History went out of their way to set up an event just for Ryan. Guess what we're doing on Satu ... Read on »

A Bloggy Milestone by Rational Jenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting I'm not sure what it is about numbers-ending-in-zero--why they're more noteworthy than, say, numbers-ending-in-eight--but there is a certain mystique about the zero, isn't the ... Read on »

Picture of the Day by Rational Jenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting My grandfather in Vietnam, in the late 1960s. This is one of my favorite pictures of him. Truly. Doesn't he look ruggedly handsome? :o) He was a veteran of WWII, Korea, and Vi ... Read on »

PD Tool Card: Connection Before Correction by Rational Jenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting I participated in the Positive Discipline chat the other night and it was very interesting. I had a little bit of a revelation during the chat, and the result is my choosing t ... Read on »

Positive Discipline Chat Tonight! by Rational Jenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting I just realized this event is tonight! There will be a live chat with Jane Nelsen at the Positive Discipline Ning Group from 9:30 - 10:30 pm (Eastern) tonight. I'm hoping to j ... Read on »

Some Things I'm Enjoying by Rational Jenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting I took a semi-intentional break from blogging over the weekend, while I rested a little and spent some of that quality time with family and friends. That was a good be-cision ... Read on »

Good Things (Thursday Edition) by Rational Jenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting The latest Objectivist Round Up is hosted by NoodleFood this week! I have two posts included, which is highly unusual for me. (Actually I was unsure of whether to submit the s ... Read on »

Good Things (Today Edition) by Rational Jenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Parenting I completed my latest parenting post, and it felt great! Some posts I can whip out pretty quickly, but this was definitely not one of those. It had been stirring inside of me ... Read on »

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