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Health : Activities Make A New Year's Wish Box © Beverley Paine The last two homeschooling tips for 2005 looked at making a memory scrapbook and a time capsule as ways of celebrating New Year and now it's time to move on from memories into goal creation, or specifically dreaming up 'wishes' to set the tone and direction of 2006. Far from being a whimsical activity the creation of a wish box, or as we used to make, a wish poster, for the year ahead is a powerful way of setting the tone and direction of our lives. Over 90% of our realistic wishes would eventuate, although not always within the following year. When we make wishes we reveal our hopes and dreams and if we examine these closely we can also determine aspects of our character that can help us change our behaviour to help our wishes come true. When we first began making our wish posters each year I quickly learned what wishes were the most important to me, and worked out why. There were many things I did in life that actually got in the way of those wishes coming true. From recording and talking about my wishes I was able to recognise and then act to discard distracting behaviours and activities. Although the children weren't as aware of the psychological processes at work as I was, nonetheless the benefits from naming realistic wishes came their way. Individual family members can make their own wish boxes, or you can do this as a family project on New Year's Day. We always made our poster as a family project because it was easier to enthuse the children. We allowed any wish at all, even the most ridiculous. Thomas's perpetual wish for a million dollars never came true, but then we didn't experienced any more financially harrowing years after we began our wish poster tradition! To make a wish box you will need a shoe box or similar, wrapping paper or paper that you can decorate, marking pens, stickers, glitter, ribbon, etc. Wrap and decorate the box and lid separately, so that you can take the lid off and on. Fill the box with items that evoke memories of the past year - letters, postcards, first issue stamps and coins, movie stubs, news clippings, wrappers of favourite chocolate bars, keepsakes and anything else that you want. You can also put into the box pictures of things you'd like to happen or have. I collect images from catalogues, or garden magazines, to remind of what I'd like my garden to look like. In this way my wish box becomes an 'ideas' box too! Place the box in prominent place in the living area and remember to visit it often as the year unfolds.
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Pioneering members of the home education movement in Australia, Beverley and Robin Paine are passionate advocates of true educational choice for families. They began homeschooling their children in 1986 and three years later started the South Australian Home Based Learners network.Beverley wrote Getting Started with Homeschooling in 1995-97 and since then continues to write books and booklets on home education. She balances spending time helping home educators with working in her garden and renovating her home, as well as continuing to build her collection of writing on a variety of homeschooling subjects. Beverley maintains an extensive collection of websites as well as several Yahoo groups supporting families teaching their children at home. In 2007 Beverley joined the HEA and became a committee member in 2008: she also edits and produce the HEA Newsletter, HEA magazine, Stepping Stones for Home Educators, annual Resource Directory and other HEA publications. If you'd like to keep in touch with what Beverley is up to her in her life, sign up for the Homeschool Australia Newsletter or visit her Facebook page.