VS Grenier ~ Award-Winning Author, Speaker & Podcaster

Join the Families Matter show hosts VS Grenier, Irene Roth & Kecia Burcham November 28, 2012 at 6pm EST - 5pm CDT - 4pm MDT - 3pm PST This month the hosts will be talking about high school cheerleading along with the dangers involved with this popular sport many school districts do not have classified under the sport catagory and therefore the popper safeguards are not in place to keep these teens safe during practice and events. The parents along with the media are calling for reform. Learn more at the following links. http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/cheerleading-dangers-bring-calls-reform-medical-group-17538311 http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/49866576/ http://www.childrenshospital.org/dream/summer09/the_dangers_of_cheerleading_and_mixed_martial_arts.html To learn more about the Families Matter hosts and The World of Ink Network visit http://worldofinknetwork.com You can also follow us on our Families Matter blog http://familiesmatter2us.blogspot.com Lis

Facebook, Twitter, text messages, emails… all of these different communication forums have greatly increased our ability to connect and communicate with others, but they’ve also done our kids a huge disservice. Instead of focusing on well-written sentences and utilizing strong vocabulary, they’ve downplayed the necessity of writing and writing well, encouraging shorthand and poor sentence structure to get a message across to others in as few characters as possible. It’s no surprise that this type of poor writing has translated into how kids approach writing at school, and it’s up to us, as parents, teachers and caregivers, to encourage children to write and write well. We can do so by: 1.        Encouraging them to keep a journal. Starting at a very young age, encourage kids to keep a journal or diary that details their daily happenings. Getting into the habit of putting pen to paper every day can help foster a love of writing and translate into writing much more than just the