Well, the photo contest didn’t work very well (we only got 3 votes; 4, 6, and 2 won). I’ve decided to do a POST contest instead. You’ll email us your posts at powerofkidslp@gmail.com about how to make your family strong. There isn’t an actual date for the end of the contest, so I’ll just tell you it’s over, when we have a lot of entrees (Don’t worry, I’ll give you a warning when it’s almost time).
Kids can help make their families strong and awesome!
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Photo contest!!!
The Photo Contest is over. Apparently, we didn't get more pictures, so we'll have to end it. Send us the number of your favorite one, and we'll tally up the votes and see who won! (The entries are below.)
Friday, August 20, 2010
Entries for the Photo Contest
For this contest, we want to get some cool pictures. Here are some of the ones that we have receive:
PS Don't send us your favorites yet; more pictures are coming.
PS Don't send us your favorites yet; more pictures are coming.
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Saturday, August 14, 2010
Photo Contest
We are going to do a photo contest! We want you to send in pictures from three different categories: scenery, humor, and kids. Please no one younger than 5 and no one older than 12. Please e-mail us your pictures at powerofkidslp@gmail.com and you'll have a deadline for submitting your pictures. That day will be August 31, 2010 but, September 31, 2010 will be the end of the voting and the end of the contest. E-mail us to tell us what pictures you liked the most. Only pick 3 that you like- don't vote for the picture that you submitted. We'll make a slideshow of all the wonderful entries and you'll be able to see if you've won or not. The Prize- you'll have that satisfaction of seeing that your picture won. Have fun!
Sunday, August 8, 2010
My Mindstorm!
About a week ago at my grandma's house, I got on the computer with my mom and dad and ordered a Lego Mindstorm from eBay. It got here a few days ago, and ever since then I've been making cool suff. It felt rally good when I got it because I worked for it.So far, I've made a ShooterBot, a robot that can shoot colored balls (That's the one in the video), a little pistol (which is just the front part of the ShooterBot), and now I'm making a SumoBot (see video). Here are some pictures and videos: PS My SumoBot is NOT one of the ones in the SumoBot video, but I did build the 'bot in "ShooterBot with RoomGuard program".
Family Laws
Ashton:
In the car, on our way back to our house from Bear Lake, our mom was telling Isaac to stop playing around with this toy that was making a lot of noise. So I (Ashton) asked why we have so many rules and so my mom said maybe it does seem like we have a lot of rules (because she's always telling us we can't do different things). We decided to think of just 5 family laws that we could all remember - and that would include all the little things we're supposed to do or not do.
Eliza:
First we thought of the law of PEACE which means no yelling or fighting or doing things that make things unpeaceful and make us sad. We decided the consequence for breaking the law of peace should be that you have to go to your room if until you're ready to be peaceful or if you're fighting, you and whoever you're fighting with need to sit on the step until you can work it out and tell your mom or dad what happened and what you did wrong and how you will fix it. Then you should say sorry and will you forgive me and give a hug. We already do this consequence and it works pretty well.
The next rule is RESPECT. You have to care about other people's feelings and their stuff. If you're not respectful you have to fix the problem and say sorry.
Ashton:
Then another law is ASKING. That means you should always ask before you go somewhere or do something that's sort of special (like a big project like painting or playdough or making cookies). The consequence for not asking is losing a privilege and not being able to do the thing you wanted to do the next time. Like when Silas when to the neighbors' house without asking, he lost his privilege of eating brownies that night.
Eliza:
Um, then the next one is ORDER. Order means that you need to keep your room and the rest of the house nice and neat. We don't like our house all dirty and messy plus order makes it easier to find stuff. The consequence for not doing order is that you can't do anything else until you clean up your mess. We talked about charging other people if we clean up their stuff but we decided we'd just help each other without money. We have to have our rooms clean before we go to bed at night.
Ashton:
The last one is OBEDIENCE. This one's pretty obvious. If we break this law, we'll do this thing where we "start over" and my mom and dad ask again, extra nice, then we have to answer extra nice and do what they ask or talk about what our idea is about doing it in a minute or something.
I think having just five laws will make it easier to remember them - and if we remember them, we can follow them better. I think laws are really important - even if they aren't always fun.
In the car, on our way back to our house from Bear Lake, our mom was telling Isaac to stop playing around with this toy that was making a lot of noise. So I (Ashton) asked why we have so many rules and so my mom said maybe it does seem like we have a lot of rules (because she's always telling us we can't do different things). We decided to think of just 5 family laws that we could all remember - and that would include all the little things we're supposed to do or not do.
Eliza:
First we thought of the law of PEACE which means no yelling or fighting or doing things that make things unpeaceful and make us sad. We decided the consequence for breaking the law of peace should be that you have to go to your room if until you're ready to be peaceful or if you're fighting, you and whoever you're fighting with need to sit on the step until you can work it out and tell your mom or dad what happened and what you did wrong and how you will fix it. Then you should say sorry and will you forgive me and give a hug. We already do this consequence and it works pretty well.
The next rule is RESPECT. You have to care about other people's feelings and their stuff. If you're not respectful you have to fix the problem and say sorry.
Ashton:
Then another law is ASKING. That means you should always ask before you go somewhere or do something that's sort of special (like a big project like painting or playdough or making cookies). The consequence for not asking is losing a privilege and not being able to do the thing you wanted to do the next time. Like when Silas when to the neighbors' house without asking, he lost his privilege of eating brownies that night.
Eliza:
Um, then the next one is ORDER. Order means that you need to keep your room and the rest of the house nice and neat. We don't like our house all dirty and messy plus order makes it easier to find stuff. The consequence for not doing order is that you can't do anything else until you clean up your mess. We talked about charging other people if we clean up their stuff but we decided we'd just help each other without money. We have to have our rooms clean before we go to bed at night.
Ashton:
The last one is OBEDIENCE. This one's pretty obvious. If we break this law, we'll do this thing where we "start over" and my mom and dad ask again, extra nice, then we have to answer extra nice and do what they ask or talk about what our idea is about doing it in a minute or something.
I think having just five laws will make it easier to remember them - and if we remember them, we can follow them better. I think laws are really important - even if they aren't always fun.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Awards
In our family, we do awards. Every Sunday (well, sometimes we forget and that's OK), after Sunday dinner, we talk about who's been doing good things that week and we nominate people for which award we think they should get. Then after we nominate people, we vote for who gets what award.
Here's the list of awards we do:
- OK Award (OK stands for Obedient Kid). This is for a person who has been extra obedient and did what they were asked to do. Eliza thinks we should change the name of this award to the 3D award for Do it quickly, Do it happily, Do it well (that's one of our family sayings) so we might change it but I think it should stay the OK award.
- Self Starter (SS) Award. You get this award for doing good deeds that people didn't ask you to do - you just see something that needs to be done and do it.
- BFF (Best Friends Forever) Award. If you be extra nice to your brothers and sisters you can get this award. It's called BFF because your brothers and sisters are your true friends that you'll have forever and ever.
- Neat as a Pin Award. This is for people who make their beds, clean up after themselves, keep their rooms clean and put their things away a lot.
- Super Friend Award. This award is for people who are being nice to other kids at school or friends in the neighborhood - like you could help another kid who's having a hard time with their math or if a kid is left out you could say, "hey, do you want to come and play this game with me - it'll be really fun" and then that kid will feel better.
- What Would Jesus Do. If you're extra kind to anyone in your family or friends and think about doing what Jesus would do, you can get this award. You can talk nicely or do a secret service or be nice when someone is mean to you or be extra grateful about something.
I like awards because it makes you want to do good things and makes you excited when you get the awards. You feel really glad when you can tell your family about what you've done that is great and you feel proud when have an award on your door. Even the twins get really excited about awards. Sometimes we nominate ourselves and sometimes we nominate each other. I feel really good when someone nominates me for an award.
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