YYOL® text message acronym for positive self esteem

GTG, BRB, LOL; well here's a new text messaging acronym; AND it stands for empowering kids to discover their inner cheerleader! YEAH YEAH Out Loud©!

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It's the vision of YYOL® to be a key, recognizable symbol for positive self-esteem.

To help them reach their full potential by demonstrating that collectively and individually they are capable of doing more than they thought possible, leading to lifelong successes.

Develop fun and inspiring solid foundation programs that foster positive self esteem while fulfilling national and state educational requirements.

Provide and support a web site that communicates clear and effective strategies and techniques to achieve sharing of positive self esteem methods and applications.

This is all achieved through the story of Hur-Ray© and Kiddazy® who's faces are made up of the letters Y Y O L.

Visit http://www.yeahyeahoutloud.com/ and see how your community can become YYOL and find a new awareness of POSITIVE acronyms!

Nationality Face

When our oldest (Adele-26) was little, she taught me a lesson I'd keep forever!
Off she went to Kindergarten (after some pre-school experience) and happily returned home with the words "I have a new friend".
Their name would not give an indication of gender, and she would then say, "and they have a nationality face!"; which to her meant, this person (I still didn't know if they were boy or girl), looked "different" than her.
Her description came from her question the year before; "why does so-and-so look different than me?"; to which I would answer: their family is from a different part of the world. We would go to the atlas or globe and find that spot-in relation to where we lived at the time. I would also explain our ancestry and show her those countries. Now the answer would be, they are a different NATIONALITY.

So now, when I created YYOL, the characters of Hur-Ray© and Kiddazy® have no "nationality" or gender and are designed to be universal yet have their own "identity" as "cheer" leaders.

Adele is now living in northern California, and is a social worker. Guess I should have known that from her youthful "people loving" phrase, "nationality face"!

With all I've done in the past 49+ years; I still say: "Being a mom, is the BEST job I ever had!"

(From June issue"Fishful Thinking"-A Beautiful Start to Summer)

YYOL recommends this site to parents and educators alike to find some more great tips on 'Empowering kids to discover their inner "cheer" leader! YEAH YEAH

As a parent and psychologist, I am concerned by how our kids are barraged by negative messages and ugly images of despair. Back when I was 10, if I saw the news I would see ugliness (crime, suffering, danger) that happened in my own community. Today, with the advent of the 24-hour news networks, our children can turn on the TV and see ugliness in every community around the world.

Fortunately, there is something we can do about it. Beauty is the antidote to ugliness. I'm not talking about supermodel beauty. I'm talking about the everyday beauty that surrounds us—dogwood trees in full bloom, lilies standing tall, the color of the sky as the last ribbon of the sun sets on the horizon or the red color of the bricks that make up the building across the street. June is a wonderful month to take notice of the beauty around you!

You can help your children stay positive and appreciate the goodness in the world by taking five minutes every day to go on a "Beauty Detour." Challenge your family to devote this time to simply stop, notice and name what is beautiful around you—no matter where you are. For example, if you are running errands, pull the car over and ask your children to name what they see that is beautiful—the colors of the cars as they race by, the way the light reflects on a puddle of water, the symmetry of the white lines in the parking lot.

By making it a practice to recognize what is beautiful as a family, you will be helping your children to see that they have the ability to pay attention to what makes their surroundings glorious, no matter how many messages they receive to the contrary!

Sincerely,Dr. Karen Reivich On behalf of the Goldfish® Team