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Help Teens Get the Sleep They Need

Help Teens Get the Sleep They Need

Practically every night I am serenaded by the sounds of a teenager rambling through the house, and thumping, dancing, or bumping in her room that is above my office. I know I shouldn’t be surprised to hear her drop books to the floor well past midnight, or giggle on the phone when her brothers are [...]

Raising Resilient Children

Raising Resilient Children

In a World of Challenges For many parents it is a goal to raise their children to be strong, full of integrity, nurturing, and resilient. We want our children to be able to withstand the tough times and fight through obstacles confidently. But how do we go about doing this in a modern world that is [...]

What’s Your Parenting Style

What’s Your Parenting Style

This Detailed Graphic Provides Great Statistics On How Different Parenting Styles Will Affect Your Children In the Future.

Is Your Children’s School Failing Them?

Is Your Children’s School Failing Them?

School years are the exciting times when we as parents watch our children morph into mini-adults with knowledge, excitement, and newfound understanding. Not all children are so fortunate, however, as not all schools are created equally. There are great schools, average schools, and schools that are little more than buildings that house children. If you [...]

Chore Charts Can Promote Teamwork

Chore Charts Can Promote Teamwork

Create Family Teamwork Through Family Responsibilities Teaching children responsibility isn’t always easy. But if you read my post yesterday you can see that not only are household chores and responsibilities good for kids, but the earlier we give them to our kids, the better. Even our preschoolers can handle basic responsibilities, and in fact, prosper [...]



Is My Child Really Ready to Drive?

Is My Child Really Ready to Drive?

There are wings on our car. Not the tangible, feather encrusted kind, but independent wings that just lifted my daughter as she drove by herself for the first time today. She took all of the driver’s training classes, passed through behind the wheel experiences with flying colors and all too-quickly passed her driving test. Suddenly [...]

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Teach Your Kids to Say “No!”

Teach Your Kids to Say “No!”

Why Refusal Skills Are So Valuable to Our Kids One of the most frustrating thing as a parent can be to hear your child tell you “No!” for various reasons, and it begins almost as soon as they can speak. We also probably wear on their nerves as we tell them “No” for so many [...]

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5 Tips to Manage Morning Routines

5 Tips to Manage Morning Routines

Wake up, sleepyheads! Getting kids ready for the day, especially school days, can be like swimming through oatmeal – you keep plowing through, but feel like you are getting sucked back into the mess. Even though we homeschool, our oldest attends college 5 days a week and we still must have a routine in our [...]

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Breastfeeding Backlash

Breastfeeding Backlash

The stigmas attached to breastfeeding in industrial nations and the dangers they pose When my first child was just several months old I did what so many working women do – I stopped breastfeeding because I just didn’t feel capable of doing both. Even though I worked for a very large company, there were no [...]

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Posted in Baby, Breastfeeding, Parenting Tips, Pregnancy, Working Mom2 Comments

Do You Have a Parenting Plan?

Do You Have a Parenting Plan?

Would you get a job or move across the world without a plan? Probably not. There would be résumés to prepare and job hours to consider, or language barriers and cultural changes with which to deal. However, all too often parents find themselves without a plan for one of the most important jobs a person [...]

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Talking With Your Kids About Drugs

Talking With Your Kids About Drugs

Without an over-protective-parent-ninja approach Yesterday I wrote about the risk factors our kids face when it comes to substance abuse, and how drugs don’t care if our kids are on the honor roll or are star baseball players, and today I share some of the ways that parents can teach themselves about drug abuse and give [...]

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A Parent’s Guide to Talking with Kids about Drugs

A Parent’s Guide to Talking with Kids about Drugs

Keeping Our Kids Safe I grew up in the era where just say no was the policy response taught to children about drug use, and I grew up in a culture and community where a “druggie” was considered the guy who skipped classes to smoke a cigarette across the street. Now I am raising children [...]

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Does Your Child Have Sensory Overload?

Does Your Child Have Sensory Overload?

The Value of the Senses in Childhood Development We use our senses every day to experience the world, and children especially are influenced by tasting, touching, smelling, hearing, and seeing the environments around them. Sometimes, because of illness, disability, or life circumstances, our kids’ senses are unbalanced, overstimulated, or under-stimulated. The results can be kids [...]

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Help Teens Get the Sleep They Need

Help Teens Get the Sleep They Need

Practically every night I am serenaded by the sounds of a teenager rambling through the house, and thumping, dancing, or bumping in her room that is above my office. I know I shouldn’t be surprised to hear her drop books to the floor well past midnight, or giggle on the phone when her brothers are [...]

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Is Your Youngest Child Spoiled?

Is Your Youngest Child Spoiled?

A very frightening thing occurred in our home. I found out that I had failed to teach my youngest (age 8) how to vacuum the carpets. I had visions of birth order prophecies coming to fruition, and shivers up my spine about “spoiled” younger siblings.   The 3 boys had just finished cleaning their room and [...]

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