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| "Hello,this is long distance. I have a call for you from Palm Springs.?" "Hello, Herman, this is Rube. Listen, I am stranded here and I need five hundred dollars." "I can't hear you. Something is wrong with the phone." "I want five hundred dollars!" "I still can't hear you." "I can hear it okay," interrupted the operator. "Then you give him the five hundred dollars!" Source: Jokes4U |
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| On Honesty Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. ~ Sigmund Freud ~ Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. ~ Josh Billings ~ The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. ~ Merry Browne ~ Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ~ Robert Burns ~ Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ~ Thomas Carlyle ~ There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white. ~ John F. Dodge ~ No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it. ~ Lee Iacocca ~ When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~ Henri Nouwen ~ |
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| Tsinoy laughs (LOL): That really floored me. Sometimes, a joke has its way to bring us back to reality. It lets us see human frailty as it is - without any pretense. In this case, it tells us that some people hear things that they only want to hear. They filter the news. They have a self-censorship mechanism. Bevioral scientists refer to this self-protective mechanism as "perceptual defense." It is a coping behavior that shields us from what our minds determine as unpleasant things which we cannot handle or which we do not want to face. What is wrong with that? Firstly, being defensive is not being honest with yourself. You become regimented by refusing to challenge your position or belief against the truth. Especially when it hurts your feelings. Secondly, being defensive becomes an obstacle to your quest for self-improvement. You deny yourself of the opportunity to recognize the source of your problem, to acknowledge or own it, and to rise above the challenge. The result is you stagnate. And you complain if you cannot get out of the rut. |
| Dr. Phillip C. McGraw, in his book "Life Strategies," says that denial is what kills dreams. It kills hope. It kills what might have been a chance to overcome a problem had the solution been pursued in time. In family relationships, parents often deny the fact that their children could become dysfunctional, especially if they are able to provide all the material comforts in life that kids could ever hope for. They deny that their teenage son could be hooked on dangerous drugs because they have enroled him |
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| in the most expensive school in town. They deny that their teenage daughter could become a single mother at a tender age because they worked themselves to the bone to give her things that could keep her occupied at home and in school. Sadly, reality hits hard when their belief on the traditional role of parents as providers is shattered by the wayward behavior of their children. nerability. |
| The next time you come into contact with your kids, become aware of how your dialogue goes with them. See if you have fallen into the routine of checking on their whereabouts a la Sherlock Holmes, or nagging them about schoolwork, or pushing them to tidy up their rooms. More importantly, be aware whether the responses of your kids are meant to communicate their true feelings, or if they merely utter empty words to quickly get away from your sight. The latter is a tell-tale sign that you have lost your connectedness with them. If so, try a different approach for a change. Like hugging them more often. And assuring them how much you love them. Believe me, it works all the time. Cheers. Tsinoy |
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| Why? Because children need to be nurtured more than they need material comforts in life. They need assurance. They need to be taught self-confidence. They need acceptance. They want to belong. |
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| Wahoo graphic design by Carlo Marco Cruz Background music "Honesty" by Billy Joel. Dollar animations borrowed from Harry and Dorret Goodwin's homepage. Fishing animation borrowed from the Animation Factory. |
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