WELCOME TO 2002 !!

We hope you all had a wonderful holiday.
Thank you to all the parents for your thoughtful and generous wishes at Christmas.

TO SHARE

One of our suppliers has a website www.smarterkids.com where you can purchase educational products for your children, birthday parties and any gifts you might need for the younger set.  You can shop by theme, character, brand name, subject or age.  These is also a family Resource Center that includes some very interesting and timely articles on education.
The prices a very competitive and Tiny Tot will earn reward certificates for supplies.  Tiny Tot is registered in the school finder.  You can view their supplies and toys.  See what you think.

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Medical News

U.S. health experts said that parents of young children attending child care centers should consider having their children vaccinated against pneumococcus, a bacterium that is the leading cause of childhood pneumonia, meningitis and ear infections.  The Center for Disease Control and Prevention said the recently licensed vaccine Prevnar, which protects young children against the seven most common forms of pneumococcus, should be considered for children under age two.
Consult you doctor on this news.
(AOL 01-03-02)

  FOOD FOR THOUGHT

NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS

Keep learning.  Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever.  Just never let the brain idle.

Enjoy the simple things.  When the children are young, that is all that you can afford.  When they are in college, that is all that you can afford.  When they are grown, and you are on retirement, that is all that you can afford!

Laugh often, long and loud.  Laugh until you gasp for breath, laugh so much that you can be tracked in the store by your distinctive laughter.

The tears happen.  Endure, grieve, and move on.  The only person who is with us our entire lives is ourselves.

Surround yourself with what you love, whether it is family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.  Your home is your refuge.

Cherish your health.  If it is good, preserve it.  If it is unstable, improve it.  If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

Don't take guilt trips.  Go to the mall, the next county, a foreign country, but not guilt.

Tell the people you love, that you love them, at every opportunity.

Paul Harvey writes:

We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse.  For my grandchildren, I'd like better.  I'd really like for them to know about hand-me-down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meat loaf sandwiches.  I really would.

To my grandson:

I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated.

I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car.  And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen.  It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your old dog put to sleep.

I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.  I hope you have to share your bedroom with your younger brother. And it's alright if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him.

When you want to see a movie and your little brother wants to tag along, I hope you'll let him.  I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely.  On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't ask your driver to drop you two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom.

If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one.  I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books.  When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head.  I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like.

May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove, stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.  I don't care if you try a beer once, but I hope you don't like it.  And if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is NOT your friend.

I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandma and go fishing with your Uncle.  May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays.  I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand.

These things I wish for you - tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness.  To me it's the only way to appreciate life.