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Summertime is time to switch-up the chore chart! I’ve done it every summer forever now. I pull the chore chart off the frig and switch things up. After 9 months of doing the same old chores (hence the school year), it’s time to teach the children new tasks. Summertime is also a great time to [...]
It’s a tradition with us. When the big kids go off to school, my homeschooled kids and I take a couple of field trips…. Every school year, our lives seem to look just a bit different. This year, we have several “shifts” of school-age children. The first shift gets on the bus first, then second [...]
Talking to your kids about sex doesn’t have to be difficult. With a few tools and pointers, you’ll be a pro! Talking to our children about God’s plan for sex and children is a conversation we approach with great fear and trembling. Not because we are afraid to have the conversation, but because it’s such [...]
Ever wonder how other moms cloth their children on a budget? This week, I switched out a few of the kids closets, something I frankly do not enjoy doing. Keeping the kids attractively and appropriately clothed, for the most part, is quite the chore. Far from the days of perfectly matched outfits and shoes, I [...]
I often hear moms ask about how to get their children to eat fruits and vegetables. Of my 9 kids, every single one of them eat both, even the picky eaters. How is this done? First, it’s important to remember that children are individuals with specific tastes, likes and dislikes, just like you and I. [...]
Playtime…sounds like fun, but for some reason there are times that my children seem to forget how to play. I know when I was a kid, we played outside all the time. We had our bikes, roller skates, pogo sticks, swing sets and unicycles. When Mom said it was time to go out to play, that meant ‘do [...]
Surely I’m not the only mother in this country being plagued by the fascination of Silly Bandz from their children! I read a bit of the story behind Silly Bandz on Yahoo Finance, it’s not surprising that the creator of these incredible-profit-margin-pieces-of-rubber, worth less than a fraction of a cent, is making a [...]
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