“Are you eating because you’re hungry or are you eating because you’re bored?” I can still hear my mother’s voice asking me this question as I dragged the kitchen table chair over to the snack cabinet located on the highest shelf in the kitchen. I was bored. You may recognize this same concept within your…
If you’re like me, you’re tired at the end of the day and might even be counting down the minutes until bedtime (not only for your children but you as well). You may find yourself crawling into bed exhausted, but as you recap your day, you feel guilty that you didn’t do more in your…
My next door neighbor is a mom to six children ranging in age from 15 down to one year old. A few months ago I asked her, “Do you ever struggle to find activities for your family that are fun and engaging for the older kids, but that the little ones can still enjoy?” Her…
“They never really tell you how unsettling it feels,” blogger Angie Mizzell wrote, “to be a parent, while simultaneously trying to figure out how to be a parent.” I’ve found that this is often true in most tasks we undertake in life. So if you are starting home school programs such as homeschool math and…
We’ve all had those days where no matter what we tried–time outs, taking away privileges, or trying to talk through our child’s feeling–we simply couldn’t get through to them. It’s one thing when it happens during your day to day routines, but when it comes to home school programs, it’s a different ballpark that may…
Have you had those days where you’re trying to teach a difficult subject to your homeschooler, but your needy toddler keeps begging for your attention? Or your computer continues to ding alerting you to new work emails, but your high-schooler needs you to explain a subject in more depth? Try creating a homeschool schedule with…