We Have to Start With the Kids / And, we have to get a grip on homework - 2/13/07

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- DEADLINE EXTENSION!  $400 OF FREE YOUTH STUFF PLUS $75 CASH AWARD.
- HOMEWORK - THE GROWING THREAT TO MIDDLE CLASS MARRIAGES
- STOSNY AND LOVE MOVED FROM 11:30AM CENTRAL TO 11:20AM ON FOX TOMORROW

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- DEADLINE EXTENSION!  $400 OF FREE YOUTH STUFF PLUS $75 CASH AWARD.

Dear Diane 
We are still looking for recipients of our "First Comes Love" awards to
teachers and youth workers.  They will each get $400 in free youth
curriculum materials!  And, if they teach the program to 30 teens by August
30th they get a $75 cash award for reaching that benchmark! "Nominate"
yourself or someone in your community. Details are at
http://www.dibblefund.org/ first-comes-love.htm.

Kay Reed
The Dibble Fund

THE MOST OBVIOUS place to start in our campaign to reverse divorce and
strengthen marriage is with the kids.  If you're not teaching marriage
skills to kids in your community, this is a no-brainer way to get started.
Free materials and a cash prize. Apply today. - diane

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- HOMEWORK - THE GROWING THREAT TO MIDDLE CLASS MARRIAGES
 
For a day-to-day, behind the scenes look at how pressures exerted by their
children¹s schools are affecting marriages all across the country, check out
Irene Daria¹s blog 
 http://www.goodcityliving.com/blog-helicopter-mom/ (Irene is now completing
her Ph.D. in psychology but many of you know her from her former job as
relationship editor at Woman¹s World magazine.) These pressures have nothing
to do with signing kids up for too many sports or extracurricular
activities. They have to do with needing to support your kids so that they
get the fundamentals of a good education. All across the country, more and
more couples are finding they need to supplement their children¹s education
at home and are neglecting their marriages in the process. In her blog,
Irene takes you behind the scenes as she and her husband try to sustain
their marriage in spite of these pressures. It¹s scary reading for anyone
who knows how important quality time is for a marriage.

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- STOSNY AND LOVE MOVED FROM 11:30AM CENTRAL TO 11:20AM ON FOX TOMORROW

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