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PAGE 6A PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. JANUARY 1.2015
Chamber of Commerce December breakfast
Amicalola EMC was named the Large Business of the Month by the Chamber for
December. The award is sponsored by Community; Bank of Pickens County.
Breakfast sponsor - ETC Communications, LLC (l-r): Alan
Davenport, ETC Communications, LLC, Denise Duncan,
Pickens Chamber, Dave Garner and Barry; Pritchett, ETC
Communications, LLC.
Members of the Pickens
County Chamber of Commerce
might not have time for breakfast
every day of the week, but at
least once a month members will
be starting their day off right
with a Chamber-sponsored
breakfast and information ses
sion.
Thank you to ETC Communi
cations, LLC, for sponsoring our
December Breakfast. The pro
gram this month was put on by
our current Leaderships Pickens
and Youth Leadership Pickens
participants. Thanks to Bojangles
for a delicious breakfast. The
Chamber of Commerce wel
comed new members, Becky Fox
- Ga Earth Oils, North Cherokee
Electrical, Peach State Publica
tions/Georgia Connector, Title-
Max.
We are looking forward to
seeing all our Chamber members
at the January 13 meeting at
Chattahoochee Technical Col
lege with speaker President Ish-
erwood, Reinhardt University.
For more information on our
monthly breakfast or any Cham
ber event, please visit www.
pickenschamber.com or call the
Chamber at 706-692-5600.
Amatuer Radio Club
to meet Jan. 1
The Jasper Amateur
Radio Club meets on the
first Thursday of each
month at 7 p.m. at the Cor
nerstone Church Auxiliary
building, 145 Cornerstone
Drive (off Camp Road just
east of the Pickens County
Community Center).
All visitors are welcome
to attend. Each meeting has
a free presentation and dis
cussion of Amateur Radio
events or operating modes,
including Emergency Com
munications. Come see how
much fun Amateur Radio
can be! Please visit our web
site at www.jasperarc.com
for more details.
Coin Collector’s Club
The Pickens County
Coin Collector’s Club meets
at the Dean Center at Am
icalola EMC, 544 Hwy. 515,
Jasper, across from the Bar
gain Barn, on the first and
third Tuesday of each month
at 6 p.m. For more informa
tion call Butch at 770-324-
8724.
Georgia Driver Services reminds you to check your license expiration date
As the New Year begins,
Commissioner Rob Mikell, De
partment of Driver Services
(DDS), recommends checking
the expiration date of your Geor
gia driver’s license or ID Card.
“Please check the expiration
date of your license or ID and
plan ahead if you are expiring in
2015. Not waiting until the last
minute plus having all the neces
sary documents ready ensures a
smooth experience when you
visit,” said Commissioner
Mikell. “Best wishes for a safe
and healthy holiday season.”
• Pre-Apply Online, https://
online.dds.ga.gov/onlineser
vices/preapply/ is a convenient
way to make your visit to our of
fice go smoothly. Fill out the
DDS Application anywhere, any
time and from any device includ
ing smartphones. The submitted
information populates directly to
the mainframe, reducing data
entry time and any potential typ
ing errors at the time of service.
• Check the expiration date on
the right hand side of your dri
ver’s license or ID card. If it is
time to renew, then most cus
tomers will need to bring original
documentation to get a gold star
on the top right hand corner of
your license:
- An original/certified docu
ment to prove who you are such
as a Birth Certificate or Passport
- One document showing
your full Social Security number
- Two documents showing
your residential address such as
a Bank Statement or Utility Bill
- If you’ve had a name
change, then you’ll also need to
bring a document to prove that
such as a Marriage License.
- Non-citizens and anyone
missing any of these documents
will need to use our Checklist
which will provide the Ml list of
all documents that we accept.
Go to www.dds.ga.gov and click
on Secure Driver’s License & ID
to create your personal checklist
or print the entire list.
• A license or ID Card may be
renewed up to 150 days before
the expiration date.
• It is not necessary to visit a
DDS customer service center in
the county that you reside in.
You may obtain licensing serv
ices at any center statewide.
• Skip A Trip! Check for alter
natives to visiting in person by
reviewing DDS Online Services
at https://online.dds.ga.gov/ on-
lineservices/. Certain transac
tions must be handled in person,
but many are available online
such as changing your address,
replacing a lost license and ob
taining a copy of your driving
history. Customers who already
have the gold star on their license
or ID may be eligible to renew
their license online, so please
check.
Before visiting the DDS
All customers are urged to
plan ahead before visiting the
DDS to renew or obtain a license
or ID Card. Customers may print
a detailed list of all mandatory
requirements to prove identity,
residency and social security
number at www.dds.ga.gov.
Customers may also create an in
dividual Document Checklist tai
lored to their particular service.
Parenting expert offers advice
Raising happy campers means
teaching obedience and respect
By John Rosemond
Copyright 2014, John K.
Rosemond
Who are the happier campers
in a workplace setting: the em
ployees who (a) obey the mles,
follow the procedures and voice
any complaints respectMly, such
that the entire workplace is not
disrupted or (b) disobey the rules
at every possible opportunity, de
liberately fail to follow proce
dures and disrupt the workplace
with frequent and often subver
sive complaints?
You answered (a) of course.
And so it is with children. The
happiest kids, so finds the best
research (if interested, Google
Diana Baumrind and Robert
Larzelere), are those who obey
parents and teachers, do what
they are expected to do without
lots of management and voice
complaints and disagreements
respectfully.
Therefore, because happiness
is a child’s right (because for
one, a child cannot learn the ben
efits of pursuing it unless he has
first experienced it), teaching
obedience and respect is a funda
mental parental responsibility -
the third, in fact, which comes
after securing a child’s physical
well-being and demonstrating
unconditional love.
The question then becomes:
How does a parent go about
teaching obedience and respect?
The answer is in four parts:
First, the parent acts like she
knows what she is doing and
knows that what she is doing is
correct. This means, for example,
that the parent does not need to
consult with a 5-year-old to de
termine what foods are going to
be on the child’s dinner plate.
The parent is, in a word, deci
sive. She knows it is more im
portant, generally, to be decisive
than to always make the most
perfectly correct decision (if
there is even such a thing).
Second, the parent acts like
she knows why she is doing what
she is doing. She is guided by
overarching principles, not whim
or emotion. Therefore, she is
consistent from decision to deci
sion. The parent is, in a word,
purposeful. Her purpose is to as
sist the child toward standing on
his own two feet, to raise a com
passionate and responsible citi
zen.
Third, the parent acts like she
knows what she expects of the
child, what she wants the child to
do at any given point in time. In
giving instructions, for example,
she does not bend forward, grab
her knees and speak to the child
in a beseeching tone of voice.
She does not offer reward for
obedience or threaten punish
ment for disobedience. She sim
ply tells, using as few words as
possible, and never, ever punctu
ates an instruction with a ques
tion mark. She communicates to
the child that he will do what she
tells him to do not because of re
ward or threat but simply be
cause she tells. The parent, in
five words, comes straight to the
point.
Fourth, the parent acts like
she knows the child is going to
obey. After giving an instruction,
she leaves the area (if at all pos
sible). She does not stand there
waiting for obedience, because
that is the equivalent of saying,
“I don’t think you’re going to do
what I just told you to do.” And
that is definitely going to pro
voke push-back. The parent, in
three words, communicates pos
itive expectations.
Those four attributes define
the effective delivery of author
ity regardless of setting. They de
fine effective leadership, and
effective parenting is a relatively
simple matter of providing a
child with equal measures of
love and leadership.
How simple is that?
Family psychologist John
Rosemond: johnrosemond.com,
parentguru.com
The Pickens County Head Start/Pre-K School thanks the
following Pickens County businesses and organizations that
made donations for the annual Christmas party benefitting 135
students which was held on Friday, December 18, 2014.
Big Canoe Realty
Richard F. Buhl, DDS
Cognova Counseling
Community Bank of Pickens County
EZ Hair
Foothills IGA
Dan DeJiacomo Custom Homes
Stearns Bank
UPS Store Jasper
Rocco’s
United Community Bank
Bank of Ozark
FATZ
James N. Golden, DDS
Jasper Drug
Moore Furniture
Mountain City Auto Parts
61 Main
Solar Nails & Tan
Wells Fargo Bank
Victor Nails and Tan
Big Canoe Chapel - Women’s Guild
Big Canoe Chapel
Big Canoe Company
Our Lady of the Mountains Parishioners
Our Lady of the Mountains Women’s Guild
Our Lady of the Mountains Men’s Club
Several individual and anonymous donations
Event sponsored by:
St. Vincent de Paul Society
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