Savor the moment. When your children are younger, every day feels like a year. But as they get older, every year feels like a day. Enjoy these days. You’ll never get them back. Before you know it, they’re out of the house. This is the easiest time to parent – when your children are young [...]
Read More →From Study of Child Life by Marion Foster Washburne Positive Commands As we shall see in the next section, Froebel meets this difficulty by substituting positive commands for prohibitions; that is, he tells the child to do instead of telling him not to do. Tiedemann says that example is the first great evolutionary teacher, and liberty is [...]
Read More →Homeschooling can be burdensome, stressful, and busy. Oftentimes we get caught up in the implementation of the curriculum and forget the most important aspects of our job as homeschoolers and mothers. These tips are not meant to be judgmental or condescending. They are reminders that we all need from time to time. 1. Be polite [...]
Read More →We have all made mistakes in raising our children. If you haven’t yet- just wait. Part of the maturity process in parenting is learning from those mistakes and being gracious to those who are still on bumpy roads. In her book Parenting Wild Things, Jessica Bowman details her experience as a mother of 4 (including [...]
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