I started an experiment a couple weeks ago: whenever one of my kids starts randomly complaining to me, I am randomly making gratitude statements. Just spewing them out. I'm grateful this! I'm grateful that! I become like a gratitude sprinkler. So yesterday my daughter was complaining about an [...]Continue Reading
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This Belief Keeps You Constantly Busy – and not able to slow down with your kids
Are you the person keeping yourself from slowing down? I'm certainly at fault on this sometimes, even when it feels like it's everyone else making the demands on my time. Going more slowly while doing day-to-day tasks with my kids is so nurturing for us, yet sometimes I get stuck on a [...]Continue Reading
Tuning Out the Parenting NOISE
Today we're welcoming my friend Erica Layne of Let Why Lead; her writing inspires me because of the way she touches on truths that sometimes slip through our fingers - like we know them, but haven't quite articulated them. Once she lights the way it's easier to live these truths. This post contains [...]Continue Reading
Mason’s Greatest Gems – start a conversation on developing virtues
Resource review - a book on character strengths This post contains affiliate links. We recently read Mason's Greatest Gems by Chelsea Lee Smith of Moments a Day. This sweet book is a story of a boy finding out he has "gems" inside (character strengths) that he can find and polish all through his [...]Continue Reading
Is this what causes so many kids to be brats?
"It's crap like this that causes so many kids to be brats and monsters, we need to be tougher on kids, not softer." Ever heard something like that? I got a comment here recently that said as much. Certainly it's not the first time I've gotten comments like that and maybe this time it was just too [...]Continue Reading
5 Fun Ways Kids Can Help With Thanksgiving
We want to include the kids, but we also want to finish the cooking, and get food with a minimum amount of stress. Here are a few satisfying jobs kids can do to help get ready for Thanksgiving, plus a few printables that might make waiting for pie a little more fun. Decorate place cards for [...]Continue Reading
