Keeping Your Children Busy When You Work From Home

by: Aurelia Williams
Juggling children and work can be a challenge, whether you work outside the home or you are a work from home mom, but, in some ways, work from home moms face more challenges than moms who work outside the home. After all, when you’re in a traditional office, you don’t need to worry [...]

Teach Kids to Think, Discuss, and Build Character with 3 Easy Sentences

by: Jean Tracy. MSS
Do you ache to know if you’re parenting well? Have your kids gone underground with their thoughts and feelings? Do you feel cut-off?
The most important job you’ll ever have is parenting. To parent well, you need to know what your kids are thinking. If their thinking is crooked, their characters will be [...]

Build Character: Help Your Kids Discuss Outside the Box

by: Jean Tracy. MSS
Parents and Teachers, are your kids afraid of taking risks? Are you afraid your kids won’t develop their talents? Do they hide inside the Invisible Box?
Let’s learn a fun way to help your kids risk wisely, develop their talents, and stay out of the Invisible Box. In the last newsletter I described [...]

Playing An Active Role In Your Children’s Homeschooling

by: Donna L. Miller
Homeschooling is an option that many parents choose when they feel that, for whatever reason, their child will not be getting the best education in a public or private school system. Homeschooling allows for a variety of curriculum and teaching techniques to be applied that suit your child’s particular needs - often [...]

21st Century Children

by: Scott Bianchi
I didn’t have a child back in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and so on. Technically, I have nothing to compare raising a child in the 21st century too, except for my own childhood experiences, but I would have to say that raising a child now is more difficult than 30 years ago.
I have [...]

Attention Shoppers, We Have a Small, Lost, Three Year-Old Boy with Red Hair……..

by: Scott Irwin
Have you ever been shopping in a busy mall, stopped to look at something only to discover that in the brief time it took to do so, your child has wandered away from you? If in reading this question you are able to answer no, you undoubtedly know someone who has been in [...]

How To Make A Memorable Scrapbook For Your Child…without Having A Masters Degree In Art!

by: Jennifer Tarzian
When my son was only a few months old, I was fortunate enough to be invited to a scrapbooking party. I had no idea how much fun putting together a few pictures could be! Immediately, I was hooked. I had been taking pictures constantly since the day my baby was born, and now [...]

4 Parenting Styles

by: Dana Goldberg
Every grandmother and grandfather will tell you hilarious stories of their children when they were first born. And for every funny and touching story they have, they will be able to tell you another for every hardship they encountered. Parenting is something that is done in many different ways by each parent. The [...]

Winning the Candy Wars

by: Chick Moorman and Thomas Haller
Our children are being bombarded with candy from every direction. Chocolate bars, gum, suckers, and assorted gummy candies line the checkout lanes in grocery stores. School fundraisers sell candy bars, cookies, and brownies in the hallways during lunch hours. Every mall, skating rink, soccer complex, movie theater, and even the [...]

How to Cope with Colic

by: Monica Faircloth
When my oldest daughter was born, I walked the floor night and day, rocking and swaddling, singing and even crying…anything to make my new little miracle stop her endless crying. Well, everyone told me she just had colic and that it would pass. And, alas, pass it did, however I wish that I [...]