Tag Archives: Gail Cawley Showalter
5 Habits for Single Moms
Habits Make the Woman Gail Cawley Showalter If you want to make your life and household go smoothly I suggest looking at your habits. I’m telling you what I wish someone had told me oh so many years ago. My bad habits are catching up with me. Changing them at this point is no […]
7 Rules of Life
Rules for Life You’ve probably heard these seven rules before. Last Sunday at the SMORE Sunday Support Group, Mary Simon shared them and we all shared our thoughts about each one. Tell us what you think. Which one speaks the most to you?
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? […]
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. […]
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