Living near the city of Chicago you have probably had a chance to watch a skyscraper or two under construction.  For the first six months or so of the project, all the workmen do is make a big hole in the ground.  To build a tall building by starting below the surface level seems crazy.  But, as you would suspect, there is a good reason for the large hole.  To build a mammoth building that is going to be stable in the strong Chicago winds, it is first necessary to dig down......

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Parenting is filled with many impromptu teaching moments that will impact our children for the rest of their lives, if we take advantage of them. A father had just finished disciplining his four-year-old daughter for misbehaving, and, after her time-out he heard a gentle knock on his study door, and said “Come in.” His daughter came in and matter-of-factly said, “Daddy, sometimes I am good, and sometimes I am bad.  And that’s just the way it is.”  Then she left the room, acting as though she had completely explained her misbehavior for......

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