Family

Birthdays, boys and girls

July 11, 2008

Flickr: Seth Thomas Rassmussen 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 what presents he […]

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Screamfree Parenting Book Review

July 4, 2008

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 have my […]

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What to do in the school holidays?

July 3, 2008

Image via Wikipedia 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 […]

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Achieving goals – June

July 2, 2008

It’s time to report in and see how well I’ve done in achieving the goals I set for June. I have to say that knowing I’d be writing about my goals here, for all to see, has really made me focus. Blogging Write a series of posts to schedule if I am away. I’m into […]

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Raising environmentally aware kids

June 28, 2008

Image by macg3 via Flickr The school and preschool my children attend integrate environmental awareness into many of their classes. The Thinker and I also do our best to tell the kids about our impact on the world and the importance of our natural environment. I’d never thought too much about the actions we put […]

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Giving children independence

June 20, 2008

Over the last six months, I’ve been learning a lot of lessons in giving my children independence. As an example, Little Mermaid has been taking swimming lessons for about 12 months now. Until the start of this year, I was always in the pool with her. This year, her teacher decided it was time for […]