Melts In Your Heart, Not In Your Hands The other morning my 2 1/2-year-old came up to me and gave me a HUGE hug, looked into my eyes and with all seriousness asked me, “Mommy, do you know that I love you?” Of course my heart melted in that moment and he could have asked [...]
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Parenting By The Minute: A Savory Sunday
Sunday morning was positively glorious at our house this week. The boys started the day by crawling in bed with me and giving me lots of sweet snuggles. We went downstairs and we cooked some waffles while Nora Jones sang sweetly in our ears. While sitting in a sunbeam, I cradled a steaming cup of [...]
Painting a Wall: A Parenting Experience | Parenting By The Minute
A Parenting Masterpiece I’m a big fan of colored paint. After a friend “converted” me to the world of color, white walls seem naked to me somehow. A can of paint is one of the quickest, cheapest ways to give a room an entirely new look and feel. A couple of the walls in our [...]
Preserve Those Childhood Memories: No Scrapbooking Involved
One Minute Parenting Tip: Creating Your Own Memory Lane I want to share a little something special with you that I started doing for my kids before they were born. It doesn’t involve glue, scissors, or all the fancy-shmancy tools I have in my scrapbooking closet. (Honestly, I haven’t scrapbooked since my second son was [...]
Positive Parenting: A New Spin on “NO!”
As I was driving down the street the other day with my kids in the car, my 2 1/2-year-old, Xander, piped up and said, “Mom I want to go get ice cream!” This wasn’t in my plans for the day, so I replied, “No, Honey. Not today.” A few blocks down the street Xander said, [...]
Is Montessori too Unstructured for Today’s World?
In my deliberations about homeschool, I received some feedback on a Facebook post about using a Montessori Curriculm (which tends to be less structured than traditional schooling and lets the child lead the teaching by their current interests) to teach my boys.
Are You Raising a Willful Child?
This is one topic that gets a LOT of controversy. The willful child. The medical field even has a disorder name for it … Oppositional Defiant Disorder. But what if I told you it was GOOD not bad to raise willful children? Would that qualify me for admission to a mental institution? Well, I’m going [...]
Why Did The Doggie In The Window Make Me Cry?
Why did a simple children’s book bring tears to my eyes? Discover the powerful lesson in an old children’s song.
How a Mini-trampoline and the Beegees Saved the Day
While a trip to the Caribbean would be divine, sometimes all you need in life are the simple things to keep a SAHM sane.
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