Creative Consequences: Discipline your child without yelling!
If you don’t like yelling at your kids, try these creative consequences to help correct them. You can discipline your children without yelling or spanking.
Meal Ideas for Menu Planning
Moms hate the question “What’s for Dinner?” Menu planning for large families or small ones can help take the crazy out of the 4 o’clock craziness.
Household Management Lessons from the CEO
We can take tips and strategies from the CEOs and adapt them to household management. Using these strategies, we can make our homes run smoother.
History Resource: Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt is fascinating, and that’s why it’s so popular. Here are my favorite resources to study this topic, from books to multimedia options.
Task Tracking: the Index Card system
Not a task I enjoy The task of keeping up with my home has always challenged me. This may surprise some people, and others may just smirk, but I am not a naturally organized person. My mother despaired of me ever learning time management skills, or even basic housekeeping as…
Why Your Kids Should Have Chores
Many parents skip making kids do chores, but they aren’t helping their kids. Kids should have chores, and the benefits are huge!
History Resource: Ancient Mesopotamia
Don’t like history? You just haven’t read the right books. Here’s all the resources I use to study Ancient Mesopotamia history with my children.
If I’m Gifted, Why Am I so Thick?
This is a guest post, but the author chooses to remain anonymous. As a gifted adult, this resonates on so many levels. As a mother, raising a gifted child, I see this in my own daughter. For reasons which will become clear later, I’ve been researching giftedness. I first developed an interest in the subject when I taught a kid who was on Ritalin, even though it was blatantly obvious to me that his problem was sheer boredom. His brain was so fast, neither his…
Daily Minimum Maintenance: Busy Mom Cleaning Tips
Life is busy. There’s no time to clean. Life gets crazy busy, right? Between work, school, and all the kids’ activities, when do you have time to clean? But no one likes to come home to a cluttered house, with funky smells in the fridge or sticky stuff on the…
Busy Mom Cleaning Hacks
When you’re a busy mom, cleaning is sometimes the hardest thing to do! Here are some busy mom cleaning hacks from a mom of 6!
