Journeyer’s Chronicles

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Do you ever wonder how your kids turned out to be so different? Today is The Engineers 7th birthday. After a number of false starts during the night, we let him get up at 5:45 this morning to begin his celebrations. Of course, he was most interested in [...]

I initially saw Screamfree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool, by Hal Edward Runkel, a licensed marriage and family therapist and relationship coach, in a New York Times bestseller list. I passed over the book at first, as I don’t read a lot of parenting books. I [...]

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Last week, I began to think about what we could do during the school holidays. I figured planning some activities would help keep the kids (and me) from going stir crazy.
Then I was reminded of my childhood holidays - totally unplanned, unscheduled and great fun. I honestly can’t remember doing one [...]