Apparently there is a conservative uprising against Sen. Bob Bennett in Utah. Challenger Mike Lee appears to have a chance to oust a sitting senator. I have to admit, I’m stunned. Sen. Bennett seemed like a pretty conservative senator. But apparently not conservative enough, if you read this article.
I’d like to hear from Utah readers. What do you think about this matchup? Do you have a problem with Bennett? What is Mike Lee’s reputation?
“What about when they say, “I didn’t hear you” as their reason/excuse for not following instructions…but you think they must have?”
This is a classic! It is either one of two things. Either your child really didn’t hear you, or she just lied to try to make the reason she didn’t follow instructions look like your fault instead of hers.
If you are constantly hearing this excuse for instructions not being followed, then you should first ask yourself, Continue reading
For an inhabitant of the Seattle area, visiting Vancouver, BC is like traveling to a nearby parallel universe. The climate and the general look and feel of the place are about right, but like the Kinder Eggs we enjoyed there, Vancouver is loaded with surprises that not only aren’t chocolate, they should be played with rather than eaten. Continue reading
If you want to see an important part of the future of the Church, come to Asia.
I stood in a meetinghouse lobby in Hong Kong this morning watching people stream into the chapel to watch General Conference. There were missionaries from around the world, and there were members from around the world. The electricity, the feeling that something extremely important is happening in the Lord’s kingdom, was tangible.
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A lot of children have selective hearing; have you noticed? Some of this selective hearing is planned and some isn’t. They really don’t hear us correctly sometimes. We can do something to make sure this doesn’t happen as often.
Have you ever said don’t run down the hall, and the first thing your child does is run down the hall? My mom used to say to me, “Don’t talk back to me.” The first thing I did after this instruction was talk back to her. Strange.
It is never a good idea to start an instruction with the word don’t, because whatever you say after don’t might be the part of the instruction that they think they have to follow. Here is a classic example. Continue reading
