* Overhead: "Is it because light travels faster than sound that some people appear bright until they speak."
*The hospital service will be issuing new stamps that show life in the 1950s, including 3-D glasses ansd cars with fins, reports Jerry Perisho. "But if they want something to show what life was really like," he says, "they should print ´four cents.´"
*Signs you are getting old: You don´t hold in yours stomach when someone young and attractive enters the room.
You can live without sex but not wihtout glasses.
You are proud of your law mower.
Your best friend is dating someone half his age, yet isn´t breaking any laws.
You sing along with elevator music.
Poeple call at 9 p.m. and ask, "Did I wake up you?
*Question: "What´s the difference between a tenured professor and a terrorist?"
Answer: "The terrorist you can negotiate with."
jueves, 3 de septiembre de 2009
dinners as family event
Why it´s important
"Dinnertime is often the only time of the day when there´s an opportunity for the whole family to be together and feel a real sense of connection," says William J. author of The international family: How to build family ties in our modern world. "Without frequent reinforcement, that connection can be lost, and kids start to feel insolated."
How to do it right: Make the meal special - turn off the TV, lihgt some candles and don´t start until everyone is present. "If your teen-ager is on the phone and you being without her, you´ve communicated that she´s not important enough to wait for," says Doherty. Likewise, everyone should stick around until the last family member is finished, so that dinner is a family event, rather than a rushed experience.
More good ideas: If conflicting shedules make family dinners impossble, get creative. One woman, whose husband consistently works late, packs up a picnic and her three kids and takes the family dinner to him a few nights each week. If there´s no way to do dinner, breakfast every saturday morning at tha pancake house ia a good alternative. "Whatever works for your family is fine," says Doherty, "as long as it´s a ritual they can count on."
"Dinnertime is often the only time of the day when there´s an opportunity for the whole family to be together and feel a real sense of connection," says William J. author of The international family: How to build family ties in our modern world. "Without frequent reinforcement, that connection can be lost, and kids start to feel insolated."
How to do it right: Make the meal special - turn off the TV, lihgt some candles and don´t start until everyone is present. "If your teen-ager is on the phone and you being without her, you´ve communicated that she´s not important enough to wait for," says Doherty. Likewise, everyone should stick around until the last family member is finished, so that dinner is a family event, rather than a rushed experience.
More good ideas: If conflicting shedules make family dinners impossble, get creative. One woman, whose husband consistently works late, packs up a picnic and her three kids and takes the family dinner to him a few nights each week. If there´s no way to do dinner, breakfast every saturday morning at tha pancake house ia a good alternative. "Whatever works for your family is fine," says Doherty, "as long as it´s a ritual they can count on."
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