Hi everybody. I’m not sure which order is most accurate: I get hungry so I write about food metaphors or I write about food and then get hungry! Well, whatever the order is, I’m writing about food (sort of) and I’m hungry, again! I find that the best way to teach, so that my students can remember the information, is to apply what I’m talking about to something that is already familiar. Today I’m talking about how to REALLY live…
By Cranford Blackmon One of the things we like to focus on in all of our programs is that safety and security doesn’t have to be complex or difficult. There are so many things you can do to make your home less of a target for bad guys. We like to teach that the best way to make yourself and your home a “bad” target is by using layers of simple security. Using plants can add a few more layers…
In our talks and programs about boundaries, we talk about coming up with a personal safety plan that has multiple layers of security. The more layers you can add, the harder it is for a criminal to victimize you. Criminals look for an easy target. The more difficult it is for them, the more likely it is they will decide to look somewhere else. Our job is to make it too difficult for them. So difficult that the criminal decides…