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Thalidomide Maker’s Apology Not Enough

A few days ago, Gruenenthal, the maker of thalidomide, issued an apology to the people who were affected by the drug. Thalidomide caused severe birth defects in thousands of babies. Many are seeing the apology by the drug maker, decades after the damage was done, to be lacking. Thalidomide is a drug that was made by a German company named Gruenenthal. The drug was intended to be used by women who were pregnant as a cure for morning sickness. It was sold in the 1950’s and 1960’s in 46 countries including the UK, Australia, and what was once West Germany. … Continue reading →

Ancestry.com Had Another Site Outage

Did you have problems using Ancestry.com the other night? It probably wasn’t because of something wrong with your computer. The popular genealogy website had it’s second site outage in less than a month. The issue, whatever it was, has been resolved, but it is leaving people who pay for the service with some questions. On August 9, 2012, the popular genealogy website, Ancestry.com, experienced a site outage. It carried over into August 10, 2012 before things got resolved. Since the website was inaccessible, someone at Ancestry.com posted a status on their Facebook page that noted that they were aware of … Continue reading →

Special Needs Blog Week in Review – Week of February 12 – 18, 2012

The Special Needs Blog Week in Review is a great way to quickly catch up on everything that appeared in the Special Needs Blog in the past week. It is a good way to make sure that you haven’t missed anything. You can scan through this list to search for blogs about whatever particular special needs your child happens to have. The Special Needs Podcast Roundup for the week went up on February 13, 2012. I would like to point out an episode done by The Coffee Klatch that is titled “NY Times Op Ed Gone Wrong – Ritalin Gone … Continue reading →

Not the Way You Want to Start Your Vacation

“Hope for the Best. Expect the worst.” I think Mel Brooks helped make those words famous. Or maybe it was the person, who typed them up on small pieces of white paper, and stuck them into fortune cookies. Either way the idiom often becomes my mantra when traveling with children. I just survived a 10,000-mile journey to and from Hawaii with my young daughter, and yes, I hoped for the best, but expected the worst. Shockingly, things went fairly smoothly… unlike past trips. Despite two delayed flights and a few shoulder blows courtesy of the guy sitting behind me, who … Continue reading →

Two Quick Tips and an Apology

I owe everyone here on the food blog a huge apology. Not long after I started on the food blog, I posted my recipe for Middle Eastern Chicken Aussie Style. This weekend as I went to make it, when we were having guests for dinner, I found out there is a critical ingredient missing in the recipe I gave you. Fortunately I noticed that as I went to make it rather than afterwards Rather than hunt through all the myriad and books and files in which recipes are written I thought I’d just take it off my blog. That’s when … Continue reading →

Olympic Spanish Basketball Players—Not Funny

Hmm… let me see if I’ve got this right… Members of the Spanish men and women’s basketball teams work hard and earn a trip to China to compete for an Olympic medal. But, before they leave their homeland they decide to pose for a newspaper ad in which they place their hands on their faces and pull the skin near their eyes to make them look as slanted as possible. “Chinese eyes,” claims one Spanish player. “How funny.” Not so much if you are Chinese. Long story short the chuckleheads on the Spanish basketball team are now apologizing—–publicly—for they call … Continue reading →

You do Not Have to Continue Apologizing

We all make mistakes. As much as I would like to think that after all this time, when it comes to my work world, that I no longer make silly mistakes or even big and horrendous bloopers—it just is not true. I do make mistakes and there are regular occasions when I need to make apologies too. While it is important to make a sincere and genuine apology, it is also important to remember that you do not have to CONTINUE apologizing over and over again. Say that you are sorry, make amends and let it drop. It is better … Continue reading →

Not Being Able to Say Sorry has Far-Reaching Effects

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Most of us find it difficult to say sorry from time to time. But it is really worth the effort to ask ourselves “Why?” Because being unable to say “Sorry, I have made a mistake” can cause problems in all areas of our lives. A friend recently encountered a person who ran a jewelry mail order company in Ireland. The representative of this business was categorically unable to apologize for mistakes he had made and consequently has not only lost a customer, but this particular customer will tell others about his poor service and his business will suffer as a … Continue reading →

Not So Smart Business

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Tim Horton’s Coffee Shop Fires Single Mom for Giving Out a $.16 Doughnut–to a Toddler Yep, apparently her manager wanted to make an example of what not to do. Don’t be generous to customers’ children thereby encouraging them to come back but instead, tell the little tike that he doesn’t deserve a doughnut. Apparently a worker saw the toddler reaching for the doughnut from across the counter and just gave him one. Shame, shame–she didn’t pay for it and her manager fired her for stealing. Once the story broke the company offered her the job back (which she accepted) and … Continue reading →

The Fine Art of the Apology

Learning to apologize well can be one of the hardest things we humans learn. I don’t know about you, but even though I thought I had it down pretty well, motherhood has added a whole new layer and lots of wrinkles to apologizing. Learning how to apologize to our kids, ask for forgiveness, and model forgiving and understanding behaviors as a parent can be tough. Now I know what is meant by the “art” of apology. Knowing when, how, and doing it with honesty and humbleness as a mom or dad is challenging! I know there are those parents who … Continue reading →