Clear communication key to building strong family ties
Catholic Online
6/7/2006, by Peggy Weber
EAST LONGMEADOW, Mass. – In her book, Weaving a Family author Peggy Weber focuses on the importance of clear, concise communication and offers some practical suggestions that may help build healthy communication patterns.
COMMUNICATION: SEEING PATTERNS
No one can weave a family well if they ...
New baby, new roles, new life
Louise Dietzel
5/31/2006
ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt. – (Catholic Online) In her book Parenting with Respect and Peacefulness, Louise Dietzel provides parents with useful and practical information to help cope with many of the challenges of caring and modeling for children.
The following excerpt is the first of a three-part ...
Autistic teen turns basketball phenom
Catholic News Service
5/25/2006, by Mike Latona
GREECE, N.Y. – The story line was already compelling enough: Autistic team manager makes varsity basketball debut in final home game of senior year. Crowd goes wild as he checks in.
But Jason McElwain's coach upped the ante, asking God to let the young man come away with one basket.
What ...
Catholic student spells way to national 2nd place
Catholic News Service
5/25/2006, by Angela E. Pometto
FALLS CHURCH, Va. – For Willie Johnson, an eighth-grader at St. James School in Falls Church, the word "interstitial" meant the difference between first and second place in the Reader's Digest National Word Power Challenge.
Willie has competed in the Word Power Challenge since fifth grade and ...
Boy Scout honored for saving baby brother's life
Catholic News Service
5/19/2006, by Christie L. Chicoine
PHILADELPHIA, Penn. – Joseph McCabe will always remember July 20, 2005, as the day he saved the life of his baby brother Riley, who was then 9 months old.
Just three weeks before Riley accidentally swallowed a piece of tape he found on the floor, Joseph had learned the Heimlich maneuver and ...
Sewing ministry provides comfort for grieving parents
Catholic News Service
5/14/2006, by Jeanne Krawczyk
TULSA, Okla. – When a baby is stillborn or dies shortly after birth, "no one is ever prepared," said Maggie Smith, perinatal bereavement coordinator at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa.
But members of the St. Gianna Interment Gown Sewing Guild do what they can to ease the pain by sewing gowns, caps, ...
Video game industry asked to improve games ratings for parents
Catholic News Service
5/12/2006
WASHINGTON – Multiple studies have been conducted about content in video games related to violence, sexual themes and profanity that goes unlabeled on the games' packaging, even for games intended for the youngest users. The latest such study has prompted a Catholic congressman, Rep. Joe Baca, ...
How to say ‘I love you, mom’
Catholic Online
5/14/2006, by Mary Carty
(Catholic Online) – All mothers have one thing in common: they have given the invaluable gift of life. Then after giving birth, most moms then go on to act as parent, guide, role model, chef, chauffeur, confidant, homework monitor, banker, advisor, special events planner… and the list goes on. The ...
Program provides prom dresses and lessons in safe dating
Catholic News Service
5/13/2006, by Kathrynne Skonicki
JOLIET, Ill. – A Joliet Catholic program that provides free prom dresses for high school girls not only focuses on clothes and accessories, but also puts a major emphasis on dating safety.
Samantha Mosher, prevention educator for the Sexual Assault Service Center of Guardian Angel Community ...
NCEA speaker shares realities of teen substance abuse
Catholic News Service
4/27/2006, by Priscilla Greear
ATLANTA, Ga. -- Every teenager faces pressure to consume alcohol and drugs, and educators need to actively support youths in making the right choice for their personal and physical growth and being completely chemical-free throughout high school.
Every Catholic high school has a problem with ...
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