Our children are the digital generation from cell phones to iPods , the there is the social media craze of Twitter, Facebook,YouTube. Our children are connected 24 hours a day often being distracted from school work, chores and even carrying on a face to face conversation. Then there are the safety concerns of who are [...]
For many of us, labeling our children’s possessions is a common practice. Over the years, I have discovered that using personalized labels have increasingly more uses. You can order labels inexpensively online or make your own on the computer or with a permanent marker and some heavy tape. Click here to read some of [...]
Don’t toss those won out TOMS sitting in your closet. Get ready for Summer with this fun re-purpose idea of transforming your TOMS shoes into sandals. Not only is this idea from MidWestern Thread being frugal with our worn out items it is a fun way to add a new pair of shoes to [...]
According to a survey completed by Pew Internet and Life Project, 20% of kids’ ages 6 to 11 have cell phones, whereas 75% of kids’ ages 11 to 17 have them. How do you know when it is the right time to get your child a cell phone? And if you do get your child [...]
In my search for bed time stories to read to my two youngest boys I cam across a series of books called the Light Keepers by Irene Howat. A series of books about boys and girls who made an impact on our world by using the gifts and talents that God gave them. As a [...]
Do this, do that, you need to, don’t do that, and what are you doing can often be the only words we as moms feel we say all day to our children. Often leaving us feeling as though we spend our day ordering them around rather then encouraging them. Do you ever feel this way? [...]
I often ask myself how does one raise those kinds of kids – world changers! From John Newton to Billy Graham – what were they like to raise, what inspired them to be world changers? or what about Corrie Ten Boom (hid Jews in Nazi Germany) or Catherine Booth (Co-Founder of The Salvation Army) who [...]
Have you ever wondered if leaving your child or even young teenager in the car alone was against the law? I have. Today this very question was posted on my local PATCH online news and the answer was given by a Washington State Patrol officer. If you have tweens and/or teens like I do, who [...]
How quickly they grow up and become independent, which is why I am taking full advantage of the fact that both my 11 and 13 year old boys still enjoy our nightly bed time stories. Though I’m no longer reading them Winnie the Pooh, Veggie Tales or stories out of their Bible story books I [...]
from the National Association of School Psychologists www.nasponline.org/resources/crisis_safety/talkingviolence.pdf After the recent Sandy Hook Elementary school tragedy many of our children are filled with concern, questions and fears. How do we calm those fears and answer their questions? Our local elementary school shared this resource from the National Association of School Psychologists. High profile acts of [...]
