Printable Christmas Books
Your Kids Can Make as Gifts Wrapping paper, ribbons, tinsel, carols, candy canes. I can almost smell Christmas. That means at our house we are in the full swing of the preparation for this holiday, and...
View ArticleDiscipline without Tears and Tantrums: Is It Possible?
Somewhere along the line I found myself moving in parenting from searching for discipline methods that really work to trying to teach self-discipline. As the kids get older and I as their mom get a tad...
View ArticleFasten Your Seatbelts! You’re Parenting a Tween
3 Bumps in the Road Tweens Face – and How We Can Help Them Charlene Giannetti and Margaret Sagarese, authors of The Roller-Coaster Years, pinpoint three of the issues of which I hear so many parents...
View ArticleThe Child with Intense Emotions
When it is More than Just a Phase There is no parenting journey that compares with loving and leading a child with intense emotions. No one hands you a helmet with ear plugs, offers you a defense...
View ArticleCoping with Tragedy
Resources for Children and Parents in the Wake of the Connecticut School Shooting Like so many parents across the country, and the world, I wept today for the children and teachers lost in the...
View ArticleScream Free Parenting
Is It Really Possible – and Effective? Parenting – it’s not about the kids. This is the ironic message that is delivered in Scream Free Parenting, by Hal Edward Runkel. According to Runkel we are too...
View ArticlePrintables to Encourage Reluctant Readers
Setting Reading Goals and Reaching for the Stars Are you a bookworm but you are raising a book-balker? A child who balks at most of the books you suggest from the shelves and who would rather shovel...
View Article10 Fun Freebies for Families
The grocery bills keep rising, the costs of music lessons seem to snip holes in the pocketbook, and orthodontist bills just prepare you for college bills. Raising kids is an expensive adventure. That...
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9 Favorite Lapbook Projects for Fun and Easy Learning
I was getting the 7 year itch in homeschooling. I’d tried almost everything – except lapbooking. The kids and I were both stuck in a rut and we needed to do something fast before homeschooling turned...
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What in the World is a Lapbook?
Lapbooks, project packs, and file folder books – they are all referring to the same basic idea of creating a miniature book to reinforce a learning adventure. Becoming popular in the homeschooling...
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