Howe Enterprise again nominated for Hugh Aynesworth Award

Dallas, TX, Oct 31, 2018 – The Press Club of Dallas has selected 27 finalists in 16 categories for the second annual Hugh Aynesworth Awards for Texas Journalism

The competition was open to Texas reporters, columnists, editors, photographers and videographers from throughout the state of Texas for work done in the calendar year 2017

“We increased the number of categories this year, and we’re excited by the response,” Press Club President Paul Wahlstrom said Entries came from journalists and their news organizations in Dallas-Ft Worth, San Antonio, Houston and smaller communities, such as Howe, a North Texas town with a population of about 2,600

“The judges wrote some really complimentary comments about the finalists,” Wahlstrom said “Our judges are well-known journalists from the East Coast and have not been involved in Texas journalism, so their deliberations were based on what they read and saw, not who they knew.” The awards dinner and ceremony will be held Dec 1, 2018 at the Irving Convention Center, beginning at 5 pm and is open to the public It will be hosted by John McCaa, longtime news anchor at WFAA

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The Howe Enterprise was a finalist and eventual winner of the firsttime award in 2017 for weekly newspapers The story entitled, "EF-1 Tornado; EF-5 Community" won the award for the 55-year-old publication This year's nominated story was entitled, "Two Howe ladies blessed to survive weekend in Vegas "

The competition is named for Hugh Aynesworth, an awardwinning reporter and editor, whose first-hand recounting of the 1963 assassination of President John F Kennedy resulted in his bestselling book, November 22, 1963: Witness to History A long-time Press Club member and past president, Aynesworth is the author of several investigative books and is a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist

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How do I get my teenagers to understand that time is money?

Hi Taylor - I’m trying to convince my two boys - 14 and 16 years old - that time is money

Taylor Kovar

Whenever I say that, we get into frustrating, teenage arguments over semantics and they go back to playing video games How do I fix this problem while they’re still young?

- Deanne

Hey Deanne - Getting teenage boys to care about money is one of life’s great challenges (sorry, Mom and Dad!) It’s going to be an uphill battle, but you should think of ways to show them instead of telling them One of the ways to do this is to actually make their time more valuable, through an allowance or another sort of rewards system

No one is going to believe that their time has monetary value until you prove that to be true

This is a little easier with adults, as an hourly wage is proof that an eight-hour workday equals X number of dollars With a teenager who might not be working yet, or who just works seasonal jobs and doesn’t have to stay motivated year round, you have to draw the line between time and money for them

If you already offer an allowance, make sure your boys are earning it Instead of paying for chores that are poorly done, pay for a task that’s accomplished well They’ll want to finish the job as quickly as possible, so you have to set the standard for good work

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As they find ways to done right and fast, th discover the importan efficiency, which is a valuing one’s time

Beyond bribing, maki about long-term goals they talk about wantin car or a new gaming c break down how many would take to earn the money needed to buy that item Give examples of how the money could be earned, through a regular job or by collecting and recylcing cans and bottles When they connect the dots between working, earning and buying cool stuff, they’ll start to see how using time wisely can result in getting what they want

The biggest hurdle is often teaching responsibility When we’re teenagers, we don’t want to take responsibility for much Once we start to see that taking ownership of our time can produce good results, our habits change Without becoming too much of an authoritarian, find ways to show your kids that taking smart action will produce the best outcome

I’m not surprised the boys push back on a figurative statement like “time is money” If you can find a way to show how quality use of time leads to increased earnings, you’ll probably start to make a little more headway. Good luck, Deanne!

One of my favorite rock songs of all time (“Hello, I’m John, and I’m a rock ‘n’ roll addict”) is “For What It’s Worth,” written by Stephen Stills and originally recorded by Buffalo

Springfield It begins, “There’s something happening here; what it is ain’t exactly clear….”

That lyric occurred to me as I contemplated the ever-increasing number of stories I am hearing of young children with clothing and food “issues ” Specifically, these kids complain that their clothing itches or feels tight or their food tastes or feels “funny” Reports of hysteria and throwing up are common

These complaints and over-the-top behaviors often result in a diagnosis of Sensory Integration Disorder, concerning which there is zero hard evidence verifying the pseudoscientific claims being made by diagnosing professionals When they say things like “your child’s brain has difficulty receiving and processing sensory information,” and “your child experiences things like taste and texture differently than does a normal child,” they are throwing darts blindfolded These claims are unprovable, to say the least

I don’t particularly relish the taste of some foods but will eat them without complaint if someone else prepares and serves them to me Does this mean there’s a problem with the wiring in a certain part of my brain? No, it means I am considerate When it comes to consuming certain foods, the setting, not my tongue, dictates whether I eat them or not When making those decisions, I take other people’s feelings into consideration (And by the way, a couple of my sweaters have itchy collars I pull them on and force my mis-wired brain to get over it.)

Young children are by nature selfcentered, meaning they rarely if ever take other people’s feelings into consideration. To a young child, nearly everything is all about The One and Only Almighty Moi Furthermore, children are soapopera factories It is an act of love for one’s neighbors for parents to teach children that their feelings do not rule other people’s behavior (beginning with theirs)

But many if not most of today’s parents are not impressing that understanding on their children Instead, they regard their children’s feelings as valid, meaningful expressions of inner psychological states that they must strive to understand and affirm In their view, failing to do so may bring on a psychological apocalypse

Ironically, because they try to understand and affirm what is essentially irrational – their children’s self-centered and hyperactive emotional expressions – said well-intentioned parents wind up bringing on one psychological apocalypse after another (For the record, a child’s emotional expressions are not all irrational only most )

Because of mental-health propaganda, today’s parents take this stuff seriously And so, instead of saying, at the first complaint of itchy clothes or “funny-tasting” food, “You’re going to wear/eat it anyway, end of discussion,” today’s parents begin jumping around like manic marionettes trying to make life perfect for their little darlings This is, after all, what good parenting is all about in the new millennium

The following is axiomatic: When parents assign credence to every emotion a child puts out there, he will quickly develop what I call Affective Basket-Case Disorder He learns, after all, that if he acts like he is having an ABCD episode, his parents will change their behavior and revise their expectations

Under the circumstances, the child suffers because people who are driven by emotion are not happy people. His parents also suffer because living with a person with ABCD – no matter the person’s age – is highly stressful Invariably, the child’s parents begin acting like emotional basket-cases, about which they feel significant guilt, thus further overloading their already-overloaded emotional baskets.

Yep, there’s something happening here all right, but I happen to think it’s perfectly clear Fifty or so years ago, the mental health community persuaded parents that children had a right to express their (mostly irrational) feelings freely It’s been an increasingly chaotic downhill ride ever since Family psychologist John Rosemond: johnrosemond com, parentguru com

John Rosemond has worked with families, children, and parents since 1971 in the field of family psychology In 1971, John earned his masters in psychology from Western Illinois University and was elected to the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor S i t