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Happy Mom’s Day

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(It took four times for my mom to get it right then she bore my younger brother. )

At BDB’s –Where Refills Are Free I want to wish everyone a Happy Mother’s Day. Yes, everyone because all of us have been part of the mothering process from the inside. I don’t know about you but I cried when I got the pink slip and had to enter the “work force”.

My Mother’s Day mostly consisted of giving a Mom’s Day call to Florida and having some special strawberry shortcake at church to celebrate the day.

Do you know how they celebrate Mother’s Day in South Korea?

 

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Teaching Catch

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I spent this afternoon with a two year old. Cute kid. At first he didn’t know what to make of this tall foreigner but all little kids love to play. First his parents took one each of his arms and did the “Jump and pulled him off the ground” game. Then I played the “Jump and lift the little guy to ride on my shoulders” game. He was probably scared so I let him down to his mother’s arms. Once his mother put him down he put up his index finger. Yes, the international signal for “One more time”. I don’t know what they are feeding … Continue reading →

Three Chairs for BDB’s

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I just bought a new chair. I have gone backless. I am getting a standing desk and this will be the chair I will use with it. Before this I have worked in a typical low back with arm rests office chair and with a high back with arm rests office chair.

I was going to put a picture on this post of the new chair but I hear BDB has a strict policy of no photos of stool samples. (Is this true, MLH?)

What type of office chairs have you used? What chair are you using now? For Pencil, where do you park your eraser?

 

 

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Automaticity

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I have been reading “Making Habits Breaking Habits” and came across this word. It is making actions automatic. We do this a lot. Half are lives are in automatic or repetitive actions YMMV.

Key things I have learned so far is we are somewhat Pavlovian. We respond to certain locations and situations the same way. We sit in the same pew. We take the same “roads” through life. If you want to break or start things breaking up the routine helps. That “comfy chair” will set you up and you won’t even know it.

We also react to people in automatic ways. We take them for granted and stop listening. (“Not me dear, other people. What were you saying again?”)

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