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COMPLIMENTARY E-TICKETS

for ALL Utah Parents and Families to the

 “First Lady’s Parenting Conference and Expo”

on May 4^th and 5^th at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City

Because of the strong and generous support of our community supporters and partners; we are able to extend complimentary tickets to the “First Lady’s Parenting Conference and Expo” to ALL parents and families who are interested in attending.  Please forward this to all your contacts and make the tickets available to as many as possible.

Remember the event will be held at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City on May 4th and 5th. Here is the First Lady’s Conference Packet with detailed information along with a Complimentary e-ticket for each person attending.

All complimentary electronic tickets and printed tickets will be honored for admission and must be shown at the door.  Tickets shown on iPhones or electronically are acceptable for individuals, couples and families.  Please note that there will still be a charge of $10.00 at the door for those who do not get their tickets in advance, so please make sure everyone entering has a copy of the ticket.

We encourage you to post the Conference Packet on your school and organization website.  It is the desire and goal of the First Lady of Utah, Jeanette Herbert and her “Uplift Utah Families” Board and Task Force, that this conference reach as many Utah families as possible.

Please note that the Conference portion is for parents and adults only, while the Expo and Car Exhibit are open to the entire family.

Thank you,

 

Steve James
Executive Director
Uplift Utah Families
Initiative of the First Lady of Utah
801.243.4004
steve@somethinggoodinc.com

Occasionally, in church I like to pass around to each family member a piece of paper titled, “All About (Name): (Name) Is…”
And then let each family member add whatever kind observation about that person.

The benefits are simple and important: The writer is able to reflect on the good qualities of that person and the recipient gets to feel great and appreciated. It’s a quick, simple, yet meaningful, way to feel connected and to further solidify the family bond and loyalty to one another. It’s also interesting and fun to find out what each other notices about each other.

So today, I did one on myself as dad and one for the kids mom. Here’s what we learned about each other from our kids.

“Hey Kids: Your Dad Is…”

• From my daughter (14): “something, funny, goofy, dorky, ‘smrat’, Jonathin/Jonafat, creative.”
• From my son (16): “interesting, a good drawer, cool, a good sword fighter, good at helping with problems.”
• From my daughter (11): “strange, funny, smart, creative and helpful.”
• From my son (9): “smart, funny, weird, awesome.”

“All About Mom: Mom Is…”

• 16: “good food and laundry–he he–just kidding but really too, loving, caring, funny, a good dancer, can make my friends laugh.”
• 14: “she’s prettyyyyyy :), silly , a good cook, good at shopping, distracted a lot, goofy, loving”
• 11: “funny, nice, pretty, loving, dog loving, sweet, good cook.”
• 9: “she calls dad ‘Pootie’, she’s pretty, funny, likes ‘bunnies’, best food ever!”

I don’t know anyone who tires of hearing nice things said about them. You just can’t over-appreciate someone, folks.

Give it a try and share how it goes for ya.

— For more tips, strategies and resources for creating truly GREAT relationships with self and others visit http://JonathanSherman.net —

Taught 11-year-old daughter learning to control her anger is as learnable as controlling a car via the speedometer, steering wheel, gas/brakes of emotion regulation. She felt bad before about not being able to control her anger and was crying, poor thing.

I’ll post the copies of the worksheets she and I came up with together and sometime I’ll describe the process in greater depth. For now, let me just share: She felt empowered! I love being able to help my children navigate the tricky waters of life.