(Peter Pan Giveaway is two posts down) Gratitude #1 way my parents taught us this is by volunteering for our community. We volunteered as a familywith things from Sub for Santa to helping clean up people’s homes after a flood. If your children are old enough to join (or start!) a Community Service Club, sign them up!
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This goes along with last week’s Wednesday Mid Week Rambling of making your child feel special. Here is a great simple activity to do with your children to teach them of their individual worth/helping them to feel special. First trace an outline of your child’s silhouette or trace their whole body onto some butcher paper
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My daughter came to a realization today, grabbed my cheeks, squished them together and said, “I am special!” It melt my heart and made me wish she could feel like that forever. When my daughter is sad my husband has a habit of picking her up, lying her on his shoulder, rubbing her back and
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Here are two Parenting Books (well sort of I suppose) I am reading right now and loving. In the future, I will do book reviews for both, feel free to read along with me. Click on the image to go to the author’s websites.
The Over-Parenting Crisis Katie Allison Granju Recently, a coworker and I were looking at some old family photos she had lying on her desk. Several of them were of her grandmother, tending to various household chores for the camera. The photos looked to be from sometime in the 1950s, or possibly the early ’60s. There
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Helping Children Deal with Disappointment I had this side job a few years ago where I transcribed interviews between a professor and women governors who were participating in the publishing of a book about what helped them become a leader through their childhood. It was one of the most interesting things I have listened to,
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Importance of Spending Time as a Couple and How to Find a Good Babysitter I know this is normally ideas for things to do as a family, but I thought I would share how important it is for couple time, next week I will go back to family time Date nights are important for a
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How to Teach Your Child Good Manners by Nellie Graham When children are polite, kind, and honest, they develop character and make their parents proud. Mannered children grow into mannered adults and it is never too early or too late to teach your child about manners. Show the example – When our children see you
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They have THE BEST website for teaching fire safety to children. Take time to go through it one night and take the time to teach your family for your weekly family activity. www.firesaftey.gov They have lesson plans you can download for free on escape planning, home fire safety and smoke alarms. They even have down-loadable
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Raising Cultured Children By Kathy Bishop & Julia Whitehead, authors of The City Parent Handbook Early grade school is the sweet spot for broadening your kids’ cultural horizons. Why? Well, kids of this age are often as much into learning as they’ll ever be. Their attention spans have lengthened, so slightly more sophisticated fare isn’t
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