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Helping Grandchildren Adjust to a New Sibling
I’ve done it four times before. I now have five wonderful grandchildren, all belonging to my daughter and her husband. They range in age from 11 years to 15 months. A new baby is due to make his...
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Laughter, Your Family’s Best Medicine
As parents it’s easy to get uptight and take things too seriously. When we were raising our kids, I sometimes found myself feeling anxious or irritated by my children’s antics. I realized I was...
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Summer Movie Fun
I love the more relaxed pace of summer. But I also recall the cries of “I’m bored!” within the first week of summer vacation. Those summer days, though they sometimes seem to pass by in a mere blink,...
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10 Tips for Taking Your Kids to the Ball Park
As a baseball fan, you’d love to take your kids to the ball park, but the thought of keeping your little ones in a confined space for three hours is daunting. Will they be bored? Whiney? Will it be a...
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10 Ways to Be a Fun Parent
I know, I know. You’re thinking If it were easy to be a fun parent, we’d all do it. True. But what’s not to love about something that’s fun and totally free? As those summer days start to drag, these...
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Weeding Out Toys
By summertime at our house, we always had too many toys. Between birthdays, Christmas, and maybe a few random purchases, the toy box overflowed. What to do? Here’s the method we used. To start out...
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Our Top Ten Favorite Toys
Over the years, our family has gone through lots of toys. We raised three wonderful children and now grandparent six glorious grandchildren between the ages of twelve years and three months old. While...
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Disciplining with Nonverbal Cues
Ever feel like you’re talking to a brick wall when it comes to disciplining your kids? Does it seem like nothing you say is heard or obeyed? Maybe it’s time to come up with a different discipline...
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Teaching Children to Have an Open-Minded Faith
We all have our own beliefs and doctrinal stances. We may interpret the Bible differently on certain points. We certainly want to pass our faith on to our children, but how do we do this and still...
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Flying with Small Children
I just returned from a short getaway with my family which included a three hour flight each way. I was seated near children or babies every leg of the trip. I love children and my heart always goes out...
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5 Ways to Raise a Good Kid
I recently saw this poster on Facebook and it really struck a chord with me. Why? Because I was so often guilty of it when I was raising my children. I have only one child still at home, and she’s...
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My All-Time Favorite Picture Book
There are scads of children’s picture books on the market today. You can find one on pretty much any topic for almost any age child. But some seem to transcend all ages and relate to readers on a...
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Assume the Best About Your Child
Imagine that while you’re unloading the dishwasher, your little one starts pulling out the clean silverware and throwing it on the floor. Talk about annoying, not to mention the extra work he’s making...
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How to Talk to a Child
I have observed that talking to a child isn’t necessarily something that comes naturally to people. So here are a few tips on talking to the younger set. 1. Get down on their level. Try to get...
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Our Linen Thanksgiving Journal
Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday, yes, even beating out Christmas. There’s something to be said for a holiday that hasn’t caved in to commercialism. In our family, it is a time of gathering...
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Give Thanks!
Happy Thanksgiving! I’m looking forward to spending the day with my extended family. Everyone’s coming to our house, and I can’t wait to love on them! I’m thankful for the opportunity to offer...
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Teaching Children the True Meaning of Christmas
In all the busyness of the Christmas season, it’s easy to let its true meaning slip through the cracks of the rough manger bed. Is it really that important our kids hear the age-old story about Jesus’...
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‘Twas the Day After Christmas
I seldom repost something that I’ve posted here before, but it so happens that my blogging day falls the day after Christmas both this year and last. So I’m sharing my “day after Christmas” poem from...
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Positive Use of Social Media
Are you one of those who say people spend too much time on social media? I tend to agree. But I don’t agree it is something that should be cut out of my life with the swift knife of a New Year’s...
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An “Unproductive” Mom’s Daily Goal
I remember when my daughter was a toddler and I was going to a five-day writers conference in another state. My sweet husband took a week of vacation from work to be home with her and our two...
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