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Book Review Tuesday: The OWL Who Couldn't WHOO

“Join Ollie on his adventure in searching for his sister and learning the significance of being different.” About the Book: While providing insightful perspectives on diversity, The OWL Who Couldn’t WHOO offers educators, libraries, parents and young readers a fresh new look on anti-bullying and self-confidence. My girls really enjoyed this book. My youngest loved saying all of Ollie’s special words (“WHEERE!” or “WHEEN!” or “WHYY!” and sometimes “WHAAT!” ) and it was a great exercise for my oldest who is in speech to practice some of the words she has difficultly with in a fun new way. The author LeeAnna Kail wrote the book as more of a fun story to show how to get along with others who are different, but my family found other valuable things as you can see written with in the pages. One reason why this writing mama feels picture books are important to have within your bookshelves.  The story is simply told with just enough details within the illustrations and co

BTR's Featured World of Ink Network show: Families Matter on Student/School Safety

Join BTR's World of Ink Network Featured Families Matter show March 27, 2013 at 6pm EDT - 5pm CDT - 4pm MDT - 3pm PDT as the hosts Kecia Burcham, Irene Roth and Virginia S Grenier discuss the recent issues all families are talking about...student and school safety. NASRO President Kevin Quinn will be joining the show to talk about the importance of having the presence of school resource officers in schools, their duty to protect children on campus and the prevention of school violence.They will be addressing the issues of guns in schools, bullying and what parents and schools can do to help keep this crisis from growing. The National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO) is dedicated to providing the highest quality of training to school-based law enforcement officers in order to promote safer schools and safer kids. NASRO, the world’s leader in school-based policing, is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1991 with a solid commitment to our nation’s yout

BTR's Featured World of Ink Network Show: Families Matter Tackles Cheerleading

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