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Welcome to Dazzle’s blog. She welcomes parents, teachers, grandparents, and anyone who is interested in pondering and investigating many various topics.

Each blog begins with reflections, followed by suggestions, a challenge and additional worthwhile links that Dazzle has found in her ‘digging’ through the tremendous number of resources on the internet.

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303, 2022

Can Animals Teach Us to Be Better Humans?

By Fairy Dazzle|2022-03-04T10:55:18-08:00March 3rd, 2022|Categories: Grandparents, Home Schooling, Literacy, Parenting, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Teachers|Tags: Animals, Mindfulness|

203, 2022

You Don’t Have to Sit Still to Mindfully Meditate? Try Mindful Walking

By Fairy Dazzle|2022-03-03T10:48:34-08:00March 2nd, 2022|Categories: Grandparents, Home Schooling, Literacy, Parenting, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Teachers|Tags: Exercise, Meditation, Mindfulness, Walking|

103, 2022

Do You Wish You Could Wave a Magic Wand and Make Things Go Your Way?

By Fairy Dazzle|2022-03-03T10:49:05-08:00March 1st, 2022|Categories: Grandparents, Home Schooling, Literacy, Parenting, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Teachers, William Glasser|Tags: Magic, Magic Wand|

2702, 2022

Honesty: the Greatest Virtue that Anchors All Other Virtues? Or Is It?

By Fairy Dazzle|2022-03-07T23:43:52-08:00February 27th, 2022|Categories: Grandparents, Home Schooling, Literacy, Parenting, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Teachers|Tags: Honesty|

2502, 2022

Are Kindergarteners Leaders? Wee Ones Are Wiser and More Mature than Many Realize!

By Fairy Dazzle|2022-03-01T09:50:23-08:00February 25th, 2022|Categories: Grandparents, Home Schooling, Literacy, Parenting, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Teachers|Tags: Teacher Resilience|

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Addiction

Art

BC

Canada

2903, 2021

Introducing Children to Coding – Part 3: Why Should I Do It?

By Scott Demeules|2021-03-29T08:08:40-07:00March 29th, 2021|Categories: Canada, Entrepreneurship, Family, Grandparents, Home Schooling, Parenting|Tags: Children, Coding, Scott Demeules, Why|

1702, 2021

Sell Your Place and Move During Christmas, a Pandemic and Increased Restrictions? Are You Crazy? Why? Reflections and Lessons Part Two

By Fairy Dazzle|2021-02-17T13:26:44-08:00February 17th, 2021|Categories: Canada, Covid, Family, Grandparents, Parenting, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Seniors|Tags: Moving, Moving & Selling During the Covid Pandemic, Moving & Selling Strategies, Selling|

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Christmas

Climate Change

Covid

201, 2021

This Week’s Rain: A Baptismal Metaphor

By Fairy Dazzle|2021-01-02T12:08:09-08:00January 2nd, 2021|Categories: Covid, Faith, Positive & Purposeful, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset|

2712, 2020

MERRY CHRISTMAS! Mark’s Onesie Says it ALL… Is 2020 a Year of Positive Elf Magic or the Negative Sass and Spice of the Grinch? It’s All About Perspective!

By Fairy Dazzle|2020-12-27T11:38:14-08:00December 27th, 2020|Categories: Christmas, Covid, Grandparents, Positive & Purposeful, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Seniors|

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Entrepreneurship

Extraordinary Ordinary People

Faith

Family

1612, 2021

Capture Your Heartfelt Memories from Start to Finish with Writing!

By Fairy Dazzle|2022-01-25T15:01:01-08:00December 16th, 2021|Categories: Christmas, Family, Literacy, Parenting, Writing|Tags: Capturing Memories, Documenting Your Story, Increased Vocabulary, Journaling, Vocabulary|

1512, 2021

Holiday Crafting Can Pave the Way to Increasing Literacy Skills!

By Fairy Dazzle|2022-01-25T15:01:45-08:00December 15th, 2021|Categories: Art, Christmas, Family, Literacy|Tags: Craft Directions, How-to-Crafts Sequencing, Increased Vocabulary|

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Grandparents

2702, 2022

Honesty: the Greatest Virtue that Anchors All Other Virtues? Or Is It?

By Fairy Dazzle|2022-03-07T23:43:52-08:00February 27th, 2022|Categories: Grandparents, Home Schooling, Literacy, Parenting, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Teachers|Tags: Honesty|

2502, 2022

Are Kindergarteners Leaders? Wee Ones Are Wiser and More Mature than Many Realize!

By Fairy Dazzle|2022-03-01T09:50:23-08:00February 25th, 2022|Categories: Grandparents, Home Schooling, Literacy, Parenting, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Teachers|Tags: Teacher Resilience|

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Home Schooling

1702, 2022

Are Male Friendships Less Emotional, Action-Driven, Less Intense, and Simple Than Those of Females?

By Fairy Dazzle|2022-02-20T15:56:32-08:00February 17th, 2022|Categories: Grandparents, Home Schooling, Literacy, Parenting, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Teachers|Tags: Communication, Friendship, Teacher Resilience|

1602, 2022

Female Friendships are Intense, Complicated, and Usually Pivot Around Lots of Communication

By Fairy Dazzle|2022-02-17T11:29:35-08:00February 16th, 2022|Categories: Grandparents, Home Schooling, Literacy, Parenting, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Teachers|Tags: Communication, Friendship, Teacher Resilience|

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Leadership

Life Lessons

2509, 2022

Writing heals the soul. Historical fiction teaches so we don’t repeat abuse.

By Fairy Dazzle|2022-10-18T12:09:50-07:00September 25th, 2022|Categories: BC, Canada, Life Lessons, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Writing|Tags: Creativity, Japanese Internment, Writing Heals|

1509, 2022

Does the simple yet powerful word ‘just’ describe your July and August? It did mine!

By Fairy Dazzle|2022-09-25T16:48:08-07:00September 15th, 2022|Categories: Life Lessons, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Seniors|Tags: Just, Marketing, Seeking to Understand, Summer Festivals|

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Literacy

2702, 2022

Honesty: the Greatest Virtue that Anchors All Other Virtues? Or Is It?

By Fairy Dazzle|2022-03-07T23:43:52-08:00February 27th, 2022|Categories: Grandparents, Home Schooling, Literacy, Parenting, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Teachers|Tags: Honesty|

2502, 2022

Are Kindergarteners Leaders? Wee Ones Are Wiser and More Mature than Many Realize!

By Fairy Dazzle|2022-03-01T09:50:23-08:00February 25th, 2022|Categories: Grandparents, Home Schooling, Literacy, Parenting, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Teachers|Tags: Teacher Resilience|

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Math

MC's Stories

Micro Macro Perspectives

MC's Poetry

1105, 2020

I Received a Beautiful Gift: It has Tickled my Heart AND is Inspiring this Week’s Posts on WORDS…Thank You Donna Ridge!

By Fairy Dazzle|2020-09-04T11:41:14-07:00May 11th, 2020|Categories: Art, Literacy, Poetry, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset|

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Music

Nutrition

Parenting

703, 2022

A Child’s Attachment to Comfort Objects is Common and Healthy

By Fairy Dazzle|2022-03-08T10:21:02-08:00March 7th, 2022|Categories: Family, Grandparents, MC's Stories, Parenting, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Teachers|Tags: Children, Comfort Objects|

303, 2022

Can Animals Teach Us to Be Better Humans?

By Fairy Dazzle|2022-03-04T10:55:18-08:00March 3rd, 2022|Categories: Grandparents, Home Schooling, Literacy, Parenting, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Teachers|Tags: Animals, Mindfulness|

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Positive & Purposeful

Remembrance Day

Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset

707, 2022

Has grief ambushed you? Heartfelt tears poured with fond memories of teaching and retirement.

By Fairy Dazzle|2022-07-22T11:04:33-07:00July 7th, 2022|Categories: Grandparents, Life Lessons, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Seniors, Teachers|Tags: Grief, Mindfulness, Retirement, Self-Awareness|

2406, 2022

Is an Autism Diagnosis a Disability or a Gift? How Does Autism Touch my Life?

By Fairy Dazzle|2022-07-07T12:32:47-07:00June 24th, 2022|Categories: Canada, Extraordinary Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things, Family, Life Lessons, Parenting, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset|Tags: Teresa Hedley, What's Not Allowed|

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Seniors

1101, 2021

Let’s all Take 5, Stretch, Shake, Stabilize and Seeing the Glass Half Full NOT Half Empty … We have choices how we frame and choose to perceive the world.

By Fairy Dazzle|2021-01-11T12:08:52-08:00January 11th, 2021|Categories: Covid, Grandparents, Positive & Purposeful, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Seniors|Tags: Adversity, Friendship, Gratitude, Life Lessons|

2712, 2020

MERRY CHRISTMAS! Mark’s Onesie Says it ALL… Is 2020 a Year of Positive Elf Magic or the Negative Sass and Spice of the Grinch? It’s All About Perspective!

By Fairy Dazzle|2020-12-27T11:38:14-08:00December 27th, 2020|Categories: Christmas, Covid, Grandparents, Positive & Purposeful, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Seniors|

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Social Skills

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Students

2009, 2021

“What, a pop a day is too much?” asked Dazzle…. Drink Water!

By Fairy Dazzle|2021-09-17T14:05:01-07:00September 20th, 2021|Categories: Family, Grandparents, Home Schooling, Nutrition, Parenting, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Seniors, Students, Teachers, Teens, Work-Life Balance|Tags: Hydration, Water, Water Consumption|

1709, 2021

What Essential Stress Relieving Life Skills Did You Learn in Kindergarten?… SORTING and CLASSIFYING

By Fairy Dazzle|2021-09-17T12:20:28-07:00September 17th, 2021|Categories: Family, Home Schooling, Life Lessons, Parenting, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Students, Teachers, Work-Life Balance|Tags: Classifying, Dad, Household Management, Kindergarten, Mom, Organization, Sorting|

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Teachers

2502, 2022

Are Kindergarteners Leaders? Wee Ones Are Wiser and More Mature than Many Realize!

By Fairy Dazzle|2022-03-01T09:50:23-08:00February 25th, 2022|Categories: Grandparents, Home Schooling, Literacy, Parenting, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Teachers|Tags: Teacher Resilience|

2402, 2022

One Way to Support, Develop, and Teach Cooperative Communities? At Recess on the Playground

By Fairy Dazzle|2022-02-25T09:08:21-08:00February 24th, 2022|Categories: Grandparents, Home Schooling, Literacy, Parenting, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Teachers|Tags: Community, Cooperation, Playground, Recess, Teacher Resilience|

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Teens

William Glasser

Work-Life Balance

1409, 2021

Breakfast: is for Champions…. Don’t start the day ‘hangry’!

By Fairy Dazzle|2021-09-09T08:54:24-07:00September 14th, 2021|Categories: Family, Grandparents, Home Schooling, Nutrition, Parenting, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Students, Teachers, Teens, Work-Life Balance|Tags: Breakfast, Dad, Grandfather, Grandmother, Mom|

1309, 2021

Yes, You Are What You Eat! … So Take the Time to Think About the Quality of What You Consume

By Fairy Dazzle|2021-09-17T12:23:40-07:00September 13th, 2021|Categories: Family, Grandparents, Home Schooling, Nutrition, Parenting, Resilience, Optimism, Gratitude: Growth Mindset, Seniors, Students, Teachers, Work-Life Balance|Tags: Dinnertime, Food is Fuel, Healthy Eating, Meal Prep|

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Writing

912, 2021

In this Season of Gaiety and Love Are You or a Family Member the Sad Clown?

By Fairy Dazzle|2021-12-14T17:48:26-08:00December 9th, 2021|Categories: Christmas, Grandparents, Parenting, Teachers, Writing|Tags: Christmas Stress, Depression, Healing, Writing Story|

812, 2021

Release Heavy Gut Punching Guilt with Gratitude, Amends, and Learned Lessons

By Fairy Dazzle|2021-12-12T11:54:23-08:00December 8th, 2021|Categories: Christmas, Grandparents, Parenting, Teachers, Writing|Tags: Christmas Stress and Anger, Healing, Writing Story|

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