Preparing Children For Life and Enriching Families
I walked into the living room just in time to see something that made my heart skip a beat. My 3-year-old was making a bridge with his body over our 3-month-old baby. It occurred to me at that moment that though I had told my son not to pick the baby up, I don’t know that I was explicit with…
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It seems that the faster the pace in the world around us, the more we lose touch with one and other. We are usually so busy scampering from this task to that that we often forget to make real connections with one and other, life just keeps zooming by at warp speed. The pleasantries of social interactions often get lost…
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Susie loved to help out in the kitchen, so her mother tried to get her involved as much as possible. One day, when Susie was helping with dinner, her mother noticed she used a kitchen towel to wipe up egg that had spilled when making omelets. Then, she hung the towel back up. “That towel is dirty now. Don’t you…
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My son was struggling in third grade with reading certain words. Before then, he always did okay with reading, spelling, and language arts. Now, he seemed to have a short attention span, and he needed extra instructions to understand. He struggled to pronounce certain words when reading out loud, and he sometimes struggled to use context clues to know what…
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Susie reached across the table for the serving bowl, calling out, “Give me it!” She jerked it out of her grandmother’s hands and shouted “mine!” Her mother scolded her, a horrified look on her face. She had tried to raise her daughter to be thoughtful and considerate. Susie should have known better than to act like that at the dinner…
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After my son helped prepare grilled cheese for his siblings for lunch, I watched as he was cleaning up. This is something we had been working on in homeschool for a while now and letting the children do things in the kitchen and around the home was a learning process for everyone. “Are you scrubbing the pan with a scouring…
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We never thought it would happen to us and thankfully it wasn’t as bad as it could have been, but I’ll never forget the day or that call. We were on a walk and had left our older children home with the younger children, as we had done many of times. When I first answered the phone and was greeted…
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During the summer or other holidays, parents and grandparents seem to flock to Facebook filling it with requests for entertainment suggestions: “My grandson or my daughter is bored. What can we do?” This made me think–I don’t remember feeling bored in the summers or on holidays, especially when visiting my grandparents. It’s not that they set out to fill every minute…
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“Having everything be perfectly in order … before it gets ruined by the giant clutter that are my school papers.” ~ 8th grader in California* This is how one student answered the question “What do you like about school starting?” Even our children are aware of what happens when things get out of order, and appreciate everything being perfectly in…
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Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is to celebrate and honor the American labor movement, which has contributed to the prosperity of the country. It is usually celebrated with picnics, parades, and family gatherings. Some families use this as the last get-away for the year. (Here are some websites to help you learn more about Labor Day. http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/labor-day, https://www.dol.gov/general/laborday/history)…
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