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Nominations currently being accepted for the Glenda Schepp Award

This is for residents in North Dakota. So if you know of a deserving parent or professional nominate them today! I copied this from the pathfinder-nd.org website.         2012 Glenda Schepp Award Monday, January 30 2012 13:32 The Pathfinder Parent Center announces its annual nominations for the Glenda Schepp Awards for Achievement and Dedication. If you know an outstanding parent, teacher, therapist, para-educator, administrator or related services personnel, please consider nominating them for either of these annual awards. The Glenda Schepp award for dedication is awarded to a parent who exemplifies parent involvement. The Glenda Schepp award for achievement is awarded to a professional who has done an outstanding job in supporting students with special needs or facilitating parent involvement. A little bit more about the award can be found at the link embedded in this message as well as a list of past recipients. Nominations must

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Thoughts of a reformed thief

In another life I was a thief.  Yes, I admit it.  I was a thief. Why talk about it?  With all of the stealing that our son David does from family members, it hits home. I now fully understand what I put my family through so many years ago. You see, I used to live by the philosophy that if it wasn’t tied down, locked up, or otherwise secured, it didn’t belong to you anymore.  It belonged to me.  And then… My step-dad, turned me in for theft.  And the life I was leading caught up to me. My probation officer told me I had two paths in life.  Path A was prison.  Path B was change.  I chose Path B.  At some point in the future, I will write about what exactly that meant for my life and future.     Tweet #fighting4answrs

Keys, Keys, where are the Keys?

David, demands attention.  If you don’t give it to him, he will do something negative. What is the definition of negative?  Theft.  Yelling. Lies. those kinds of things.  Yesterday a set of mom’s keys went missing.  David cried about how he didn’t take them, and how we should believe him just this one time.  I then went through his room.  I found: My “Harley Fund” coin bank. Mom’s confirmation medallion. a check made out to his brother for five dollars from another person. (His brother’s name was crossed out, and David wrote his own name in its place.) scissors food boxes and cans. knives. a telephone I didn’t find the keys. Eventually, David said he would help look for them.  I granted him amnesty if he would just give them back.  All of a sudden he remembered seeing them in a clothes basket upstairs.  So we went to see if

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