Well, yesterday marked our first official day of the new homeschool year. And, if I do say so myself, it was a complete success. We were able to stay mostly within the guidelines of our family schedule, only making minor changes to accommodate for a sleeping baby and later an unintentional sleeping toddler. The day [...]
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First Day of the New Homeschool Year
Posted 23 August 2011 by adminTagged As: children, Homeschooling, parenting | Categories: Children, Homeschooling, Parenting, Products | Leave a Comment
2 Timothy 4:2-5
Posted 15 June 2011 by adminTagged As: children, faith, parenting | Categories: Children, Faith, Ways that Work (for me) | Leave a Comment
If you’ve read my recent post “Breath In…breath out” then you’re already familiar with my recent little meltdown. If you haven’t read it, I encourage you to do so. In my post I mentioned that I had called my mom to vent out all my frustrations and in doing so, she offered me some great [...]
Teacher Not Hall Monitor
Posted 25 February 2011 by adminTagged As: behaviour, children, family, parenting | Categories: Children, Parenting, Ways that Work (for me) | 2 Comments
Sometimes, as parents, it’s easy to forget that our role should resemble that of teacher more than that of hall monitor. I find there are days that I seem to spout off rules left and right with the words seeming to float into oblivion without being heard or understood by the little ears they were [...]
When Your Kids Won’t Eat Dinner
Posted 9 February 2011 by adminTagged As: children, parenting | Categories: Children, Parenting, Ways that Work (for me) | 2 Comments
My kids have never been really good eaters. In fact, it used to be a major struggle getting them to eat dinner. So, what I’m about to write is coming from someone who knows what it’s like to fight with your kids and not from someone who’s just always had it easy at mealtime and [...]
The Fatherless
Posted 8 February 2011 by adminTagged As: children, faith, family, home, parenting | Categories: Children, Faith, Parenting | 2 Comments
Adoption and foster care have been on my mind a lot over the past week. My husband and I have always said that these are things that we want to do later in life after we’ve finished having our own biological children. Foster care is what really pulls at the strings of my heart and [...]
Great Patience and Careful Instruction
Posted 4 February 2011 by adminTagged As: children, faith, family, parenting | Categories: Children, Faith, Homemaking, Parenting | 2 Comments
A few years ago I was reading my Bible and I came across 2 Timothy 4. I know I had read this passage before, but reading it again as a mom shed a whole new light on what it meant to me personally. It soon became a passage of Scripture that I based my mothering [...]
Stop the Whining!
Posted 1 February 2011 by adminTagged As: behaviour, children, parenting | Categories: Children, Parenting, Ways that Work (for me) | Leave a Comment
// I sometimes wonder if my almost 3-year old daughter is capable of going more than 15 minutes without whining. The incessant, high-pitched words that are drawn out to be twice the length they’re meant to be is enough to send chills up and down my spine. Since I have a tendency to whine, I’m [...]
Chores For Kids
Posted 22 January 2011 by adminTagged As: children, parenting | Categories: Children, Parenting, Things I Love, Ways that Work (for me) | Leave a Comment
I’ve always tried to instill in my children a sense of independence. I hold to the belief that if a child is physically capable of doing something then let them do it. And sometimes the child won’t WANT to do what they’re capable of so then sometimes I advocate forcing them to do things they’re [...]
