Kids and Teens

10 things to do on a day off school

July 30, 2008

Today The Engineer’s school is having a curriculum day. I completely forgot about it until dinner last night, even though I had it written on our . Cinderella will be at preschool until after lunch, but The Little Mermaid will be home as well. My plans for the day have been thrown a little into […]

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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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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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10 Family Fun Links

June 1, 2008

Each weekend we try and spend as much time together as a family as we can. Sometimes it’s as simple as Friday night fish & chips on the family room floor. Other times, we pack up the caravan and head off for a few days together. This weekend, as The Engineer had been doing such […]

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Wants vs Needs

May 28, 2008

Image via Wikipedia For a lot of people “need” and “want” have come to mean the same thing. All to often we are being programmed from an early age to believe that wants are needs. Rather than being guided by our heads when it comes to purchases, we are guided by our hearts. We need […]