Building Resilience in Children: The art and importance of listening
McClatchy-Tribune The key to getting a child to open up is to say very little. Simply use short phrases that reassure and prompt more conversation. This is particularly important at the beginning of a...
View ArticleSome people can always complain
Sometimes I feel as if I’ve spent my whole life looking up at the sky, hoping to see rain clouds. That’s left over from being a child during the infamously drouthy 1950s I’m sure. These days I’m...
View ArticleBuilding Resilience: Crafting your child’s character
McClatchy-Tribune Don’t spoil your children. How we’d love to give our children everything they want_they’re so darned cute! But adults who expect everything instantly and on their terms, who feel...
View ArticleChild Sense: When an older sibling is at camp
Priscilla J. Dunstan Parents often underestimate the anxiety and loneliness a younger sibling has when an older sibling goes off to camp. Young children don’t have a concrete understanding of time,...
View ArticleFrumpy Middle-Aged Mom: When I am named ruler of the Earth …
Marla Jo Fisher I am planning to run for Supreme Ruler of Earth, as soon as I get a spare minute. In case you don’t know, the Supreme Ruler gets to do whatever she wants and make the rules for...
View ArticleHerding Squirrels: The long dry season
Traci Arbios For those of us in blended-family land, it’s been a long, long summer. I never exactly know how to feel about this particular season. My husband and I are the primary parents to our...
View ArticleCelebrity Baby Scoop: Sarah Drew talks about her pregnancy and plans to be a...
Provided by Celebritybabyscoop.com Actress Sarah Drew, who plays Dr. April Kepner on “Grey’s Anatomy,” is expecting her first child with her husband Peter Lanfer, who is a professor of Second Temple...
View ArticleReporter’s notebook: WWII pilot revisits B-25
Courtesy photo: Dale Harner Ernest Shuey sits in the cockpit of a restored B-25 Oct. 4 at the Clovis Municipal Airport. Shuey, who flew 59 missions in a similar plane during World War II, took a tour...
View ArticleVeterans discuss significance of Veterans Day
Benna Sayyed: Freedom New Mexico Bruce Pollock, commander of American Legion Post 117 in Clovis, left, converses with 20-year U.S. Navy veteran Milton Mitchell, right, about the significance of...
View ArticleWind facts
Freedom New Mexico: Tony Bullocks A wind vane turns Friday in a gust outside a home on Norris and 21st Streets. Tonjia Rolan “Can you feel the rhythm of the wind in human memory? It is a music in the...
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