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Stop the Interrupting While Giving Your Child Your Attention

If you have a child, you have daily interrupting, whether it is while you are on the phone, talking to another adult, writing an email or text, talking to another of your children, or deep in thought....

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How Your Cell Phone Habits Can Be Harming Your Relationships

Cell phones are becoming more and more visible in our society. Children are getting their own phones earlier and earlier, and with each one, the owner seems glue to their screens, regardless of where...

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Stop Overriding My Parenting

What is going on in our society? It seems more and more strangers are taking the liberty to literally step into a conversation I have with my child and give their own advice, and often times tell my...

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How To Prepare Your Children to Stay Home Alone

Do you ever wonder how people leave their children home alone? As a mother of four, with over 21 years of experience, I have had to do this quite a few times. My first time doing it, I felt like my...

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How to Build Self Control in the Formative Years

From my parenting experience, I would say that building self-control in the formative years is just as important as teaching obedience and attentiveness. Most parents desire their children to display...

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How to Build Patience in the Formative Years

If you have a little one in your home, you know that patience is not something that comes naturally for them.  They have been trained from birth that when they needed or wanted something that it was...

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How to Build Responsibility in the Formative Years

What do you visualize when you think about responsibility? Does your little ones come to mind? Learning how to build responsibility in the formative years will help your children develop the necessary...

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How to Build Kindness in the Formative Years

If you have a toddler or a preschooler you can understand how important it is to build kindness in the formative years.  With four children, ranging from 5 to young adult ages, I know first hand how...

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How to Teach the Election Process to Your Kids

The American Presidential elections are always a great teaching opportunity, however many times, children aren’t taught about the entire election process, as the main focus is usually on the final part...

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Stop the Interrupting While Giving Your Child Your Attention

If you have a child, you have daily interrupting, whether it is while you are on the phone, talking to another adult, writing an email or text, talking to another of your children, or deep in thought....

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How Your Cell Phone Habits Can Be Harming Your Relationships

Cell phones are becoming more and more visible in our society. Children are getting their own phones earlier and earlier, and with each one, the owner seems glue to their screens, regardless of where...

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Stop Overriding My Parenting

What is going on in our society? It seems more and more strangers are taking the liberty to literally step into a conversation I have with my child and give their own advice, and often times tell my...

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How To Prepare Your Children to Stay Home Alone

Do you ever wonder how people leave their children home alone? As a mother of four, with over 21 years of experience, I have had to do this quite a few times. My first time doing it, I felt like my...

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5 Ways to Strengthen a Child’s Immune System

Who enjoys it when their child gets sick? No one does! When our youngest was a baby, his immune system was horrible and he caught everything. This all stemmed from him having a health issue that caused...

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How to Treat a Child’s Cold Naturally

We hate it when our child gets sick, especially when they are so little, and they just can’t tell us what isn’t feeling good to them. Finding ways to treat a child’s cold naturally has always been how...

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How to Teach Kids Not to Spread Germs

There has been some seasons in our life that the best plan of sick-proofing our kids during the winter is literally staying at home, and isolating ourselves from others. We did this a lot when our last...

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How to Get Rid of the Stomach Bug

We all dread the horrible stomach bug, because we know that when one of your family members get it, it will make its way through the whole family. It doesn’t have to be that way. I would love to share...

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How to Teach the Election Process to Your Kids

The American Presidential elections are always a great teaching opportunity, however many times, children aren’t taught about the entire election process, as the main focus is usually on the final part...

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Homeschool Planners for the Whole Family

Do you want to teach independence and accountability to your children, but not sure how to do it? I would like to introduce you to a set of homeschool planners that will help you accomplish that while...

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Preparing a Hope Chest: Reawakening a Tradition

Have you ever heard of a hope chest? I was a mother of three before I have ever heard of the term, and what it really means to have a ‘hope chest’. The moment I learned about it, I was ready to...

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