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Ready for Christmas?

December 18, 2010




To those readers celebrating Christmas or just anticipating time off from work and school to be together with their family, I thought I would throw together a few posts that you may find helpful while I continue working on my next in-depth post. Establishing Holiday Traditions Everyone wants the holidays to be a special time [...]

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“Mommy, I’m Bored” ….solutions! Carnival Posts (Part 4)

April 10, 2009




Every parent has heard this before. But some kids are bored more often than others. For a child that is always bored, there is something missing in life. Often parents think what is missing is peers. They need friends to play with. While friends can be fun and healthy in the right doses, they are [...]

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Teaching Tolerance

March 21, 2009




I was reading Dale McGowan’s wonderful blog The Meming of Life last night and got caught up in his post on Glass Houses. In his post he talks about the importance of teaching his children that ideas need to earn respect, but people are inherently deserving of respect. I agree that this is an important [...]

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Inspiring Change

January 21, 2009




I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what my goal is with this blog. When I started the blog back in May and wrote my About This Blog page this is what I said: I’m working on my proverbial PhD in Parenting. As someone that has spent a lot of years in a classroom, I [...]

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