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Teach Kids How to Make Friends

Two lessons all children need to learn are how to make friends and how to navigate through the challenges of friendships. As parents we all want to teach kids how to make friends. Often our children learn hard lessons when they have to move to a new state or school. My kids have become all too familiar with this through military life. Every three years they have to make new … [Read more...]

How to Teach Toddlers Colors

Toddler Lesson Plans for learning colors are a simple way to teach toddlers colors with easy activities for toddlers to learn colors in a hands-on way. #sponsored

This is a sponsored post. All opinions are my own. Please view my disclosure. The confusion about how to teach toddlers colors is officially over! There is so much conflicting opinion about whether to teach toddlers or whether to just sit back and watch them play. My children have always behaved better when they were mentally challenged by a learning activity. When we have … [Read more...]

Helping A Child Face Challenges

Helping a child face challenges can be as simple as finding a book they can relate to. Early elementary children will enjoy this story that also teaches them to rely on faith, and be strong in the face of adversity.

“But life has a way of serving up the unexpected.” Soon many children will be entering new school buildings, classrooms, meeting new friends, and/or beginning a new year of study at home. That can all be intimidating and feel stressful for the whole family. Helping a child face challenges is an intense parenting struggle. It can also be a time of recognizing one's strengths … [Read more...]

There Are No Perfect Parents

[Sponsored Post] See my disclosure. I had parents who enjoyed parenthood, but they were realistic about it. When they were frustrated my brother and I knew it. We knew why because they would tell us. We saw them argue. We saw them greet each other with a kiss when my dad would come home from work.  My mom would literally stop what she was doing, go to the door, and … [Read more...]

Does Being A Stay-at-Home Mom Matter?

Being a stay-at-home mom matters.

       Are our children going to turn out fine no matter what?    Is it all out of our control?    I have read comments stating that being a stay-at-home mom does not matter.  The choices we make as moms has no affect on our children. I think-as a mom of four who has been doing this parenting thing for 10 years now-every choice we make when it comes to … [Read more...]

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