Tag: Children

So today we wanted a quick project that my daughter and I could do together, but wouldn’t take up our whole day. We had been talking about a garden for quite...

Every Spring Break my daughter proceeds to tell me all the fabulous places her friends are going or how the Jone's family is going to get to have the week off....

Last year as I was reviewing my fourth grader’s Social Studies test, I couldn’t help but laugh at an answer she had written. Of course in Fourth Grade it is all...

The board game of “Life” is in the closet still used from time to time, but I find that we tend to play the electronic version more often. If you are...

It’s a secret shared previously with only a few of my closest friends, but since my unexpected divorce, my daughter has been acting out usually in the form of some type...

I have been fortunate in my life to experienced so many things and have so many possessions when at one time I could fit everything I had in one small hatchback...

It seems that eating dinner around the family table is becoming non-existent. I remember growing up that you had to be home at 6pm for dinner, you stayed outside playing all...

The Fourth Grade Blues When did fourth grade become so difficult? My daughter who has always brought home fantastic grades and rarely needed homework to be reviewed is now struggling with the...

Sometimes it is good for children to believe in magical ideas such as Santa or good old Saint Nick. I believe it not only helps their imagination, but creates good will...

Ok, so out of my own selfishness I was trying to consolidate my chores. I wanted the first school morning to be as smooth as possible.  I would pack snacks the night before...