Phyllis Dillar once said, “Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.” Until your youngest child is around 9 years old, don’t focus on how neat the house is. Focus on training your children to pick up after themselves and take care of themselves. Training […]
With the school year approaching, and my writing becoming more prolific, my husband and I need schedules, not only for ourselves, but also for our children. This post presupposes a couple of things: first, you, as the parent, have established appropriate authority over your child, and two, that you have already trained your child to […]
I spent about an hour and a half yesterday reading two books: This Must Be My Brother by Leann Thieman and Carol Dey and The Vietnamese Boat People, 1954 and 1975–1992 by Nghia M. Vo . I vaguely remember the first story, so I either read the book when I was younger or watched a show on television […]