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Communicating Love and Kindness To Your Kids – Special Replay Yes – there is hope! Communicating love and kindness to your kids does not come naturally. Ask me how I know! We discipline our children because we LOVE them – it is vital, and especially IF you want our children to grow up to become responsible adults. Show Notes: Realize your parental style – Authoritarian Neglectful Permissive Authoritarian – democratic Kids are:  Kids are gamblers Kids often say what they mean Kids are have many character flaws – anger, temper tantrums, jealousy, self-centered, etc. Kids want to get their own...

When I stepped out from under the umbrella of government monitored schooling, I thought I would still keep up this blog. "I don't make this blog for them! I make it for my family!"And then the longest break from writing during the school year happens immediately. Ooops.BUT I do plan on continuing with this blog and to do it more often. I must rationalize away my absence. That will be the bulk of this post.First, Dustin and I spent three weeks (almost) in Texas learning how to sail. This was truly an educational experience, and we plan to pass that education on...

Book: Sweet RivalryAuthor: Terri GillespieGenre: Women’s Contemporary/ Christian Romance/Family Life FictionRelease date: October 27, 2021Just an ordinary morning for Sarah Sweeting—watching her favorite baking show, Cupcake Rivalry, getting ready for work at her Granny’s small-town bakery. All that changes when Sarah spots a contestant who looks like her, sounds like her, moves like her.Was this her twin sister? The twin her mother ran away with twenty years ago? Were hers and Granny’s prayers finally being answered?When Granny confirms Sarah’s shocking discovery, Granny suffers a heart attack.Raven Souwer’s morning began at a frenzied pace—incessantly ringing phones and a Beverly Hills’ bakery full of customers. All...

A book review of The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling by Quinn Cummings Stars: **** Tarcher Perigee (2013)Education>Homeschooling240 pages Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Summary: Think homeschooling is only for a handful of eccentrics on either end of the political spectrum? Think again. Today in America, two million primary- and secondary-school students are homeschooled. Growing at a rate of 10 percent annually, homeschooling represents the most dramatic change in American education since the invention of the mimeograph—and the story has only just begun.In The Year of Learning Dangerously, popular blogger, author, and former child actor Quinn Cummings recounts her...

By Deb Chitwood from Living Montessori Now Fossils are fun for a variety of ages, and I have some new fossil printables and activities for you! There's also a fossil-themed pack for newsletter subscribers at LivingMontessoriNow.com! You'll find many activities for preschoolers through first graders throughout the year in my previous posts at PreK + K Sharing. You'll also find ideas for using free printables to create activity trays here: How to Use Printables to Create Montessori-Inspired Activities.  At Living Montessori Now, I have a post with resource links of Free Printables for Montessori Homeschools and Preschools.  Disclosure: This post...