Author Archives: Gail Cawley Showalter
Manners Are Not Old Fashioned-Manners Matter Even Today
Manners Matter is one of the SMORE Related posts: Teaching Manners, Top 10 Manners, Teaching Kids Manners in Mannerless World Unfortunately so few families eat at the table anymore. The research is out that shows that families that eat meals together at the table have several positive results, like children who don’t drop out, kids […]
Joy of Roots
Family Tree From Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much by Anne Wilson Schaef Who would have thought to design a tree such that its limbs, when they become too heavy, send dow another trunk, so that a single tree repeating this process many times over can eventually cover an are the six of an entire block? […]
Connections with Others Are Important, Sunday Thought from SMORE
We build too many walls and not enough bridges. – Isaac Newton
About Gail, A Tough Old Bird with a Soft Spot for Single Moms
About Gail Cawley Showalter This is a weblog for single mothers. The opinions expressed are my own. In addition, my thoughts and opinions change from time to time…I consider this a necessary consequence of having an open mind. This weblog is intended to provide a semi-permanent point in time snapshot and manifestation of the various […]
My Dad Taught Me About Priorities – from a Tough Old Bird
Teaching Priorities What my dad told me a valuable way to teach children. Gail Cawley Showalter, Founder SMORE for Women
True Love May Not Be What You Think
Love Is a Verb Gail Cawley Showalter Related posts: Is It Love? Thoughts on Love & Boundaries At this time of year we think of sweethearts, flowers, candy, cupid, and Valentine’s. We are suckers for the love story in which everyone lives happily ever after. Our little girls dream of being one of the Disney […]
Set Boundaries and Teach Children Early
Boundaries Keep Us Safe We all have personal space, we know instinctively when it has been breached. Do you respect your self? You are worth it! We live in a world with strange boundaries. We have privacy fences around our back yards. We become “friends” with people we wouldn’t recognize if we met them face-to-face. […]
Need a Job? Be Bold
BE BOLD from Gail’s upcoming E-book Gail Cawley Showalter We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. . . we must do that which we think we cannot. – Eleanor Roosevelt Landing a job requires a level of confidence that […]
An Interview with Gail
Gail Cawley Showalter I’ve been on a tour. Not an actual vacation, but a tour of blogs across the country. This opportunity allowed me to share with many about the unique program SMORE for Women provides. The following post is a copy of the interview that appeared on nineteen blogs. The Blog Tour Thank you […]
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