Laundry. If you’re like me, you can hardly hear the word without feeling immediately overwhelmed. Laundry can be burdensome for anyone, but it is especially so for parents of large families such as mine. For this reason, it is important to involve your kids when it comes to doing the laundry. When Laundry is Too Much Recently, a dear friend…
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5 Home Maintenance Skills Every Teen Should Learn
There are home maintenance skills that every teen should learn before owning or renting their own property. It is every parents hope that our kids will get to buy their own homes and raise their families there. We can do everything necessary to make sure they reach this goal by teaching them work ethic, how to manage their finances, and…
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5 Vehicle Maintenance Skills Every Kid Should Learn by 13
Vehicle maintenance skills are valuable skills to teach your kids, especially as they approach driving age. Many young people turn 16 and start driving their own car with little knowledge about how to actually take care of one. They may have watched their parents work on a car, and still have no idea how to keep one running smoothly. You…
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Team Work and Communication
While there are a few jobs in which people work alone, most careers involve interactions with other people. And that requires communication and team work. In the working world, these skills are referred to as “soft skills” and employers value these skills just as much, if not more, than they value a prospective employees GPA, IQ, or academic intelligence. Unlike…
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Financial Literacy and Money Management
Few things are more important in life than money management. Teaching our children the way that money works is vital for their success in life. This involves teaching them about more than simply how to keep to a budget. Teaching our children money management looks different depending on the ages of your children. Even the youngest kids can be taught…
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How to Teach Children to Do Laundry By Age
What’s a simple, easy task that everyone needs to know how to do? Laundry! Another way to use this life skill? Being a blessing to someone else, offering to launder linen and clothing for those who are unable to leave their home or who may have a budget so tight that they cannot afford detergent or the laundromat. Whatever your…
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How to Teach Children to Care for a Pet
Being a pet owner and a parent is definitely a full-time job. The great thing about it is that you can use having a pet as a teaching opportunity. There are a lot of great benefits that come from teaching children to care for a pet. It doesn’t really even matter what kind of pet it is. Don’t stress over…
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Incorporating Life Skills Into Your Homeschool Day
When people think of life skills in an educational setting, they often assume that these are the easy classes for underachievers. But this couldn’t be farther from the truth. The reality is that our children need life skills today more than ever. Incorporating life skills into your homeschool day makes for a happier family. No matter how academically intelligent your…
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5 Workout Ideas For The Non-Gym Gal
Either you like going to the gym, or you don’t. For most people who opt for that latter, there may be many reasons for their gym absence. However, this doesn’t mean that you have to completely throw a good workout to the curb. 5 Workout Ideas for the Non-Gym Gal Before diving into the five practical workouts (with over 25…
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How to Banish Boredom And Have Fun As A Family
During the summer or other holidays, parents and grandparents seem to flock to Facebook filling it with requests for how to banish boredom. 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…
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