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118-Lancastar Farming, Saturday, April 19,1986
Ida’s
Notebook
Ida Risser
The last few weeks have been
busy ones here on the farm.
When I returned from my trip
South, I had the garden rototilled
and then I planted a dozen or more
vegetables. The peas are several
Positive
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Nelsen tested her theories while
working as an elementary school
counselor in Northern California
and in her Project ACCEPT
Adlerian Counseling Concepts for
Encouraging Parents and
Teachers workshops, which
have been held throughout
California. When the book used in
the seminars went out of print, she
wrote “Positive Discipline.”
In 1981, she formed the “Sunrise
Press” in her Fair Oaks, Calif.,
home and started publishing. “I
printed 2,000 copies,” she said. “I
was sure that I would sit on 1,000 of
them forever."
Within a year all 2,000 were sold.
Nelsen printed another 5,000. They
sold.
The book refused to die. “I went
to Florida for six months,” Nelsen
said. “While I was gone, I sold
$lO,OOO of the books through mail
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inches high and the garden cress,
spinach, radishes, chard, lettuce
and carrots were some of the first
to pop out of the ground. I’ve never
seen onions come up so quickly but
I’m resigned to wait a while for the
dise^ine
“That’s when I realized, ‘My
goodness, what would happen if I
tried?’”
In December 1985, Nelsen came
out with a slick paperback edition
of “Positive Discipline” and set off
on a book tour. By January, 18,000
copies had been sold. Later that
month, she flew to Brussels to
address a conference of European
teachers on applying her
techniques to the classroom.
All with the support of her third
husband, Barry Nelsen.
Super Mom? Forget it. Nelsen
reserves the right to err
“Mistakes are wonderful op
portunities to learn” and is
uncomfortable on a pedestal.
“I hate Mother’s Day,” she said.
“Mother’s Day is the ,one time
that mothers feel guilty. There are
all these accolades that mothers
are wonderful and perfect, but
most mothers aren’t perfect so
they feel guilty.”
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parsley. I’ll have fun digging the
200 feet of five different kinds of
potatoes that I put in the ground
the other week.
Our house was a beehive of
activity as our children and
grandchildren came home for
Easter. When our daughter and
her family from Seattle came east
for a few days, all of the other
children tried to come home too.
My grandson, David, and I like to
skip stones in the Conestoga River
that flows by our meadow. And, he
is always interested in watching
his grandfather milk the cows in
the milk parlor. He insists that
they say, “Mmmm” instead of
“Moo”-sometimes they do.
Philip drove in from Chicago to
help his father haul manure from
the slated-dam pit. One day he
hauled 27 loads and the next day a
bearing broke in the spreader and
nowhere in Lancaster County nor
three surrounding counties could
we find one. So, he went back a day
earlier than expected to his job as
a design engineer for a farm
machinery company.
Then the other Saturday Allen
and I visited our daughter in
Tunkhannock for the first time.
She has been employed as an in
dustrial engineer there for almost
a year. The incentive to go was
furnished by the need to take a big
sofa that her sister had in her
apartment, to her new home. It was
a long day as we had our Foot &
Fiddle square dance meeting in
Lancaster that night also.
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Lois Hall, a Hockessin volunteer
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The focus of the annual con
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Delegates were chosen for their
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Marie Waters, 17, is a senior at
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assisting. She is a six-year 4-H’er
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Marie is a member of New Castle
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Fifteen-year-old Nancy Walsh is
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and is the assistant treasurer of the
New Castle County 4-H Junior
Council.
Kirsten Smoot, 17, is a
sophomore at Caesar Rodney High
School. She is a six-year 4-H’er and
won the state award in leadership.
She has been the Kent County 4-H
Junior Council treasurer for two
years.
Christine Jernigan, freshman at
Salisbury State College, has been a
4-H’er for eight years. The 18-year
old art major was a 1984 national 4-
H winner with her swine project.
She has held numerous offices in
her local club, is on the 4-H ad
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levels, and is president of the
Sussex County 4-H Junior Council.
The Delaware delegates are
joining other 4-H’ers from the
United States, Puerto Rico, Guam,
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,and the Canadian provinces.
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