Category: Parenting
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Parent workshop: Concentration Time!
“Hello, parents! Today we are going to start with a concept you may have forgotten from your earlier lives. It’s called concentration. Can you repeat after me? Con-cen-tra-tion. This is the action you need to perform in order to achieve focus. Focus is another thing you may have forgotten about. When you were younger, you…
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Making it up as we go along
When I think back to cultural trends that happened during my kids’ early years, there are a few that stand out as important. Both kids were born after the Web but before the iPhone, and my fellow parents and I have watched as our children’s lives took on explorations and dangers literally not dreamt of…
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5 reasons why homeschooling is a vital educational option
Homeschooling is an educational choice that is a vital one for families. Here are five reasons why homeschooling needs to remain an option for all families.
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The ‘Mama Instinct’ answer: They’ll do fine.
The things we do as parents. We want our children to do well. We want them to succeed. We want them to say the right thing. To be respected by adults in their lives. And sometimes that leads us to act in rather silly ways. Last week that lesson hit home for me. I was…
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Home for the holidays
As family, we are not each other’s therapists, friends, or supervisors. All of the other categories of relationships amongst humans are severable. No matter whether you see your family or not, they are family. They are by definition, not by choice.