Here's a parenting tip that's on the tip of your tongue!

Things had to change at the “Integrated Arts Academy” at H.O. Wheeler Elementary School in Burlington, VT. Students had been sent out of class 600 times the previous year for misbehavior.

So guess what “changed?” “Teachers and Administrators at the school heaped at least 12,000 compliments in 2009 on students who follow the rules.”

And the result of catching students doing what’s “right” and saying, “That’s great!”

Suspensions dropped by more then half, from 74 days to 21 days, and students were told to leave the classroom 198 times, down from the 600 times a year ago!

And guess what?

If sending your child to “time-out” is getting up in the “600” range, how about pouring on praise for what they do “right” as well!

You know it’s “officially” Winter when people’s tongues are getting stuck to poles!

Are you getting snow in your part of the country? Northern Arizona is getting tons of it this week!

I hope over the Holidays, you were able to watch a Christmas classic, “The Christmas Story.”

If you haven't seen it, it’s the story of a young boy who wants a Red Ryder B-B gun – and his friend who, on a dare sticks his tongue onto a frozen pole on the playground!

This just in. “Boy’s Tongue Freed From Pole!”

In a scene right out of the movie, Boise, Idaho fire officials were able to free a boy whose tongue was stuck to a metal fence pole! “I’ve been doing this 20 years and this is the first "tongue frozen to a pole" call I’ve had.” Boise Fire Captain Bill Tinsley said.

A woman driving by saw the boy with his tongue stuck to the fence and called 911. Once the firefighters poured warm water on the pole, his tongue was released and they let him walk to school.

The only thing you get from sticking your tongue on fence posts here in the Phoenix area is a burned tongue!

We hope you are warm, dry and free to roam as you read this.

Ready for something “real” instead of a New Year’s Resolution?

How about making the decision to make a 2 Degree change in your health, your home and your heart for God – not a “180 Degree” change that you’ll never keep.

Like finding a friend and the two of you committing to doing (and bugging each other to do) ten sit ups and five push ups a night. Or drinking five glasses of water a day. Or having one dessert every other night, instead of every night.

For more ideas on making 2 Degree changes in your home and heart for God, click here to read about "The 2 Degree Difference"!