Adventures with an ADHD homeschooling mom.
I get into a LOT of discussions on Facebook. Many are just shallow, meaningless things…but occasionally they go deeper. Today a mom on one of the groups I am a member of asked this question: Moms with adult children living […]
Featured image CC by David D Ah, chores… Dreaded by both kids and parents alike. Kids hate doing them, parents hate having to enforce them. I don’t have all the answers, and things are NOT going smoothly in our house…but […]
So, I’m re-listening to the book “Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids” by Dr. Laura Markham right now…I ran out of audiobooks to listen to, and I thought now would be a good time to re-listen to this seriously EXCELLENT book that […]
I am on Dr. Larry Cohen‘s email list, and I love it! Just was sent this adorable and fun sounding tip, that was too cute to not share: To help make mealtimes more fun and less stressful (and to get […]
i mean “the gift of giving” in a little different sense. usually its used to mean that its a gift of giving something to someone, right? i am thinking of it in terms of giving my kids the gift of […]
ok, i seriously suck at regular housework…i mean i do it all the time but i can’t seem to maintain anything. and i’ve not been really great about consistency with the children with chores. i want to, and i really […]
i have said here before that i tend to be very hard on myself and my parenting abilities and such. i am constantly critiquing myself and am my own worst critic. so right now i feel like posting some things […]
I posted all our Halloween pics on our shutterfly site. Kids had fun, but far too many instances of them getting scared. Maeven wanted to go home early because of it. 🙁 Just wanted to fume here for a sec […]
tyren is seriously exhausting us. just in the past couple weeks he has been throwing the most hideous tantrums and fighting us on everything, and i mean EVERYTHING. good god its exhausting. i’m crossing my fingers its just a phase […]
well those of you that read my twitter or facebook feeds, already know about the drama of the past 4 days. but i thought i’d blog about it anyway, cuz i feel like writing out the whole story. so maeven […]
have i ever posted about the lion and lamb project? i can’t remember. from their website: “The mission of The Lion & Lamb Project is to stop the marketing of violence to children. We do this by helping parents, industry […]
I’m so glad to have stumbled upon Times up kidz. It has made computer time with my kids SO much easier. I was having a lot of problems getting my kids off the computer. Maeven would get up early and […]
i so needed this. i was reading one of the blogs i subscribe to, and found this: “Attention all parents of multiple children, especially those with babies and/or toddlers, and definitely all new homeschooling families — raise your right hand […]
i know i am growing and changing all the time…loosening up on some things and perhaps strengthening my convictions on others. there are things i feel strongly about today i probably won’t a year from now. things come and go […]
i just got this wayne dyer video from the library. its REALLY old, he’s got hair in it! LOL! not much, but some…and he only has 5 kids in it and i’m pretty sure they went on to have 8 […]
i am so glad i found this!! what a great series! Part I, Whose Job is It? Part II, Getting Rid of the Clutter Part III, Let Them Help Part IV, It Takes Time Part V, Work Together Part VI, […]