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Keeping a Journal

I was recently talking to a sweet neighbor of mine. She is now in her 70’s and was reflecting on some of the hardships she has been through throughout her life. She’s been through more than her fair share of trials from the time she was very young. As she was talking to me she mentioned how much she wished that her mother had kept a journal. She knew generally of the things her mother had been through and accomplished in her life, but she wanted more. She didn’t just want to know how things happened, she wanted to know … Continue reading →

Journal Your Way through Your Teen’s Years

Next week my children return to school. It is hard to believe that my youngest is entering his first year of middle school, my middle child is entering her last year of middle school and my oldest child has just two years of school left. I am grateful that so far my children have faired well. We haven’t experienced many problems along the way. As each year passes without major incidences I feel like I can breathe a sigh of relief. Yet at the same time, as each new school year approaches I can’t help but worry some. Middle school … Continue reading →

Blogging Your Health: Pros and Cons

The other day, I was thinking long and hard about blogging your health: what to say, how much detail to give, who gets to read your posts. It’s a tricky issue, to say the least. Let’s look at some positives and negatives. The advantages of blogging your health can include: Ease. Make one post/update to your social networking site of choice and all your friends get the news at the same time. It’s quick and easy — and that’s good at a time when you may not have a lot of time and energy to devote to keeping everybody updated. … Continue reading →

Keeping a Parenting Journal

As a writer, I have boxes and drawers of journals. I’ve been scribbling in notebooks and journals for four decades and it tends to be how I organize my work, keep track of my life, and vent about all sorts of things going on. I would like to suggest that even if you aren’t a writer, and even if you’re handy with a camera or a video recorder—keeping a parenting journal can be a very worthwhile activity. When all three of my children were small, I kept a special journal just for “parenting” stuff—it is full of accounts of our … Continue reading →

Want to Keep Your Child Entertained on the Go? Try a Journal!

When my children were small, keeping them entertained and amused while we were running errands, going to appointments or even visiting relatives was a huge challenge. As most of you know, bored kids cause trouble. The more bored they get, the crankier they get and soon, everyone is crabby and stressed and the outing is a bust. I stumbled across journals as one way to keep kids entertained and focused when were out and about. We made a big fuss over our “journals.” For my kids, since many of the adults in their lives (mom, grandparents, etc.) kept both writing … Continue reading →

2006 in Review: Homeschooling Blog at a Glance

As a new homeschooling blogger at Families.com, I wanted to know everything that has been discussed to date. In response to my own curiosity, and in an effort to make perusing our articles easier for you, our readers, I have compiled all of the blogs for the year 2006. Deciding to Homeschool Why homeschool Am I qualified for this? Reasons that Homeschooling Works! My Most Important Advice for Homeschoolers. The Cost of Homeschooling Instead of standing up for their own kids, why not stand up for all kids? Disclaimer: I am hardly an expert in education. Did You Know? ‘Empirical … Continue reading →

Preventing Summer Brain Drain

The school year is winding down for millions of students across the country, and while most kids are thrilled to be getting a much needed break from studying, some parents are hoping that summer vacation doesn’t lead to brain drain. Summer learning loss is nothing new; however, it is avoidable. While most parents think summer school is the key to keeping their kids at the head of the class, there are a slew of other activities that can help preserve lessons learned in the course of an academic year. My daughter would rather give up TV and eat nothing but … Continue reading →

Write It Down!

Our kids say and do the cutest things, don’t they? Just last night my three year old son and I were having our nightly battle about eating dinner. Who has time for dinner anyways right, Mom? It was time to whip out the big guns. “Logan, if you don’t eat your dinner I am calling Santa Claus and telling him not to come to our house this year!” He promptly ran to the kitchen table, not to eat his dinner, but to write Santa Claus a letter asking him to please come anyway. Yes, my child is clever, and oh … Continue reading →

Food For Thought

Packing school lunches, worst mom job EVER, in my opinion. I’ve been scarred after just a single year on the job. So yeah, me and school lunches—-packed or served-—far from friends. And just as I was reveling in the freedom from prepping and packing that summer affords me I see the Today show’s piece on kids, food poisoning and brown bag school lunches. Greeeeaaaat! Turns out that parents, who try so hard to pack healthy school lunches, are actually making their kids sick. According to new research published in the Journal of Pediatrics, only one measly percent of home lunches … Continue reading →

What Have You Done?

I generally don’t toot my own horn very much. It’s a personal failing, generally, in a world that often rewards the most visible and the loudest. Perhaps for that reason alone, that I don’t frequently speak about the myriad things I’m doing, I often don’t have a concept of what I’ve actually done. This situation puts me in an interesting position: I’m always doing new things but never reflecting on what I’ve done. Truth be told, this blog somewhat fills that gap for me. The opportunity to write on a subject, drawing inspiration from my own life, serves the purpose … Continue reading →