One… Two… Three… Then What?
While I was at the store last week I rounded a corner just in time to see a little boy pick up a plastic sword he saw leaning against the return counter and heard his mom say, “Anthony! One”. At that...
View ArticleRunny Noses
Little kids + cold season = runny noses. Whether it’s a constant, clear runny nose or the kind where they wake up in the morning with a thick crusty mess that makes it hard to breath, it’s not fun for...
View ArticleLess Stressing About Morning Dressing
Do you ever find yourself scrambling to find one of your child’s shoes 2 minutes before the school bus pick up? Or it’s a cold morning and your child needs some long pants to wear and they are nowhere...
View ArticleSharing – An Argument Free Method
Have your kids ever fought over sharing something to eat? “He got more than me”, “His piece is bigger than mine”, or “That’s not fair”. Sound familiar? If so, here’s an idea to try. Assign one kid to...
View ArticleYour Child IS Your Work
One of my fellow grandma friends told me that her daughter-in-law would always ask her to babysit her child when she went to the grocery store. My friend was trying to figure out if it was really...
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Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Jack jumped over the candlestick. He jumped so high he touched the sky, And didn’t come back till the fourth of July. There was an old woman…. Mary, Mary quite contrary…...
View ArticleSoft, Soft
When I was a young mother I was standing in the foyer at church with a friend whose youngest child was the same age as my oldest child. She was an experienced mother who had raised several...
View ArticleCar Time
The longer I’m a parent, the more I realize how precious time in the car with my children can be! We are in the car a lot and I used to dread the rides when my children were little because they would...
View ArticleDetermination vs. Determination Who Will Win?
Below is the type of conversation that most likely happens several times a day in homes that have children ages 2 to 18. The dialog is skeletal intentionally because it represents the format for...
View ArticleBeing Bad
I was working with a kindergartener yesterday. She was loving the one-on-one attention and kept trying to talk to me and tell me little stories between practicing her letters. She let me know that she...
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