Great Expectations
https://youtu.be/K6CKAQlNl_M What do you expect from your kids? Thanks to Mr. Charles Dickens for letting me borrow his title today. I do respect a good author. My post is very…
Helping Littles with Big Feelings
How do we help our little kids with their big feelings? I feel a lot more qualified to answer that question now than I did a couple decades ago, partly…
To Ourselves and Our Posterity
What freedoms are you thankful for? This month we celebrated the anniversary of the United States of America. This country was set up to be ruled by laws instead of…
Lessons from a Lemon Tree
Have you ever smelled lemon leaves? It's like smelling fruit loops cereal! When we found our current home about 10 years ago, it already had a mature lemon tree in…
Teaching Peacemaking
"What do you do about them fighting?" she asked me. "I mostly tell them to knock it off," was my short answer. It was less than 100 degrees in August…
Culture of Kindness Part 2
Earlier this year I wrote a post about teaching kindness to our kids by studying world geography in homeschool: Homeschool: Culture of Kindness. I had to write a part 2…
Parenting with Holidays: What do they mean?
Parents get the bulk of the holiday work, along with extra enjoyment watching their kids. Holidays are about more than work and fun, though.
Culture of Kindness
In our homeschool lessons this year we're learning about world cultures. That made me think about what kind of culture we have at home.