January 29, 2009

Showing Appreciation- Blogger Style

Dominique Thoughts awards, Lemonade Award

This morning I was pleasantly surprised to found that I was awarded two awards from fellow Mom bloggers.

The 1st award- Noblesee Oblige was awarded to me by Melissa.

Here’s a breakdown of this award.

This Award is presented to bloggers who display consistency in any one or a combination of these conditions:

1. The Blogger manifests exemplary attitude, respecting the nuances that pervades amongst different cultures and beliefs.

2. The Blog contents inspire; strives to encourage and offers solutions.

3. There is a clear purpose at the Blog; one that fosters a better understanding on Social, Political, Economic, the Arts, Culture and Sciences and Beliefs.

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4. The Blog is refreshing and creative.

5. The Blogger promotes friendship and positive thinking.

The Blogger who receives this award will need to perform the following steps:

1. Create a Post with a mention and link to the person who presented the Noblesse Oblige Award.

2. The Award Conditions must be displayed at the Post.

3. Write a short article about what the Blog has thus far achieved – preferably citing one or more older Post to support.

4. The Blogger must present the Noblesse Oblige Award in concurrence with the Award conditions.

5. The Blogger must display the Award at any location at the Blog.

Maintaining this site has been a learning experience for me. I’ve met many wonderful bloggers and made lots of new friends. I’ve gain a lot of technical knowledge in regards to tweaking WordPress themes, website designing, setting up and maintaining blogs and websites, newsletters and e-mail marketing.

Besides the technicality learning part. I also grew in maturity as through interacting with others online I gained fresh knowledge in how to improve my parenting skills, how to work more efficiently. I love been up-to-date with the latest development in the world and be informed about the newest technology and highlighted to the latest health issues/findings via twitter.

I feel that it is important to be able to keep up with the latest news so that I can be in a position to make an informed decision regards matters which will affect my family and my kids in particular.

Through blogging on this website it has given me a clear idea on how I wish to educate my boys and the direction that I will/am taking with them in regards to acadamic, physical, emotional and spiritual development. I do hope that my readers too share my sentiments and that we learn from each other on how to be better parents.

The 2nd award that I received is the Lemonade Award from Sophia she runs the Work-At-Home site which you see on my recommendation list on my sidebar.

“When Life Gives your lemons you make lemonade out of it “

Here’s how the Lemonade Award works:

1. You must link back to the person you received the award from.
2. You have to nominate 10 bloggers who are deserving of this award.

I’m going to do a combination this time by nominating these 10 great bloggers for both these awards at the same time.

Angeline
DomesticGoddess
Shelby(Willow)
Melinda
Cindi
Angel
Irene
Vanessa
Bloom
Shihui

How do you show your appreciation to fellow bloggers?

Talking about Respect (Part 2)

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Showing respect means :- Be tolerant of differences • Use good manners, not bad language • Be considerate of the feelings of others • Don’t threaten, hit or hurt anyone • Deal peacefully with anger, insults and disagreements

In my last post on Respect I received an interested comment on how it was most important to instill self respect in yourself before you are able to respect others. I agreed with the commenter’s view to an extent but in order for a child to have a clear idea of Self-Respect they will need to be taught or shown how to respect others.

CharacterCounts.org has a list of books which touch on the topic of Respect.

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These are some books which are recommended reading on the topic of Respect.

This book talks about this bad tempered Ladybug who thinks it is that it is better then everyone. It goes all out to try to pick fights with insects and animals that are bigger then it. As it moves about throughout the day children explore the concepts of time, size ,shape and manners.

A Quest for Respect with the Grouchy Ladybug is something that you can carry out with your school going kids. There are some activities at that site which help Grade 1 and 2 kids learn about the meaning of Respect.

Besides using the Grouchy Ladybug to teach on respects , Kiddyhouse has a series of lessons plans where you can teach your kids on the concept of time and on insects.