•August 31, 2022•
By Cheri Burcham
Family Life Educator

Extension Educator Tessa Hobbs-Curley wrote this great article about stress levels of parents when school begins. She wrote it in 2019, but I think it deserves to be published again. She says that children returning to school can be such an exciting, busy time. For some parents, it is relieving to get back into a pattern. For others, it can be an overwhelming and stressful time. Parental stress can be triggered by monetary spending on school supplies and registration, balancing extracurricular activities, and worrying that children will adjust to the learning environment well and get along with others. The list could go on forever, right?
So, how do we make our return to school a success for our family? Well, here are a few suggestions: Read More

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•August 31, 2022•

Editing, unlike eye surgery, is not an exact science.
We all come at things with our own processes, our own perspectives.
Some of us run the spell-checker first, others tinker with ledes first, but many of us give a story a good copy edit first and only then go back to look for holes, imbalance, telegraphed quotes, issues of context, extraneous words, logical flaws, jargon, bias, lack of fairness, lack of appropriateness, poor pronoun usage, lack of continuity, unparallel construction, lack of specificity, disjointedness, embarrassing turns of a phrase, too many long sentences (such as this one) and more.
I could go on for the remainder of this column listing the things we look for that have a tendency to muck up a perfectly good story.
Once we’re done looking for the bad stuff, we focus on the good stuff in a story. No wonder people think we’re Negative Nancys.
We all have different approaches, and we all have different things that absolutely drive us nuts. Read More