Create
A Home Recycling Center
Recycling is a small way you can help the environment and is being offered in
more cities and towns across the county. Unfortunately, just the thought of
recycling can add to the sense of overwhelm and prevent you from making it part
of your daily life. Following the 8 steps, one by one, can guide you to make
this simple impact into an effortless routine.
Thinking Other Mom's Homes
Are Neater Than Yours
Do you ever visit other moms' homes and wonder how they keep it so neat?
Do you ever sit around in your own home with toys strewn over the floor,
laundry piles (both clean and dirty) beckoning for attention, and three
meals worth of dishes stacked next to the sink and wonder why you are
the only mom on the planet who cannot keep up with her home? If you
answered yes to either of these questions, then you may be suffering
from "TOMHANTY" Syndrome (Thinking Other Moms' Homes Are Neater Than
Yours).
What Kind of Lessons Do SuperMoms Teach Their Kids?
A "supermom" is a mother who puts the needs of her family above her own
and wants to be that dependable person who volunteers on every school
committee. Learn how to shed the supermom cape and free yourself from
unwanted stress.
Clutter's Side
Effects - How The State Of Your Home Affects Your Life
Stop thinking of clutter-clearing as a tremendous chore, and start
thinking of it as one of the most effective self-improvement tactics
available to you. Every magazine and piece of paper you recycle, every
book you give to the library, every knick-knack and item of clothing you
release to a new owner creates space in your life for new insight,
energy, joy, and experiences to come in!
Help
Your Child Get Organized - Do Your Part to Prepare the Next Generation As a parent you have, no doubt, worked hard to teach your children
good manners, how to read and write, how to tie their shoes and all of
the basic life skills necessary to succeed in the world. But is there a
life skill you are overlooking? Are you teaching your children to be
organized? Proper organizational skills will greatly increase your
child's potential to succeed in life.
Moving with
Children
Read these important helpful tips on preparing your children for their
move. From saying goodbye to friends to introducing older children to
new schools and neighbourhoods, this article provides a wealth of
information to assist you and your children with a new move.
The
Benefits of Family Meal Planning
Are you ready to save some time, feed your family healthier meals and
save some money along the way? These are just some of the benefits of
family meal planning. Let’s look at all of them in a little more
detail..
Family Meal
Planning Planning your family’s meals in advance will help you save time and
money, as well as making it easier to ensure your family eats healthy
and balanced meals. And the more you do it, the easier it gets!
Kids and Chores There are experts who believe kids should have assigned chores and
it’s a necessary part of growing up. Maybe it is. Maybe it isn’t. What I
know for sure is that arguments and tension in families are often centered around getting kids
to do their chores.
Managing Mealtime Madness
Pick up some useful tips for taking back control of family meals -
and save yourself some headaches in the process!
Kids can clean too!
Are we too easy on our kids these days? Certainly even very young
children can learn to be helpful around the house...
Time Saving Laundry Tips Laundry may not be the 2-3 day chore of days gone by,
but it still takes a huge amount of effort and any useful tips for
making the process a little easier are sure to be welcome!
Ideas For Sharing Stories
With Children
This two-part article discusses the ways in which stories and
storytelling play an important role in children's lives. Techniques are
offered for using stories to help develop children's verbal skills and
imaginations. This is part one.
Parenting Discipline - Teaching
Children Self Respect, Self Control and Empathy
For many parents, the words parenting discipline have very negative
connotations. There is the association with their own childhood and the
often unpleasant memories that thinking of discipline raises. Then there
is the association of the word discipline with ideas around corporal
punishment, with spanking, hitting and hurting children.
Who Owns The Problem; Parent or Child?
It is tempting for parents to assume ownership and responsibility for everything that goes on in the life of their child. However, when the parent jumps in too soon to solve the problem or give the answer, the child never learns to trust his own judgment and become a critical thinker.
Parenting - Making A Schedule This article on the benefits of scheduling your day as a parent
really struck home with me. It took me a while to work this out for
myself when I had young children at home, and I wish I had done so - and
benefited from the much calmer household that was the result - sooner!
Being Left Is The Definition Of A Mother
To be a successful mother you must be left. Not left handed, nor to the
left politically, but just left. This necessary abandonment comes in
gradual stages and the steps toward this goal are painful to be sure.
The Uneducated Palate
When did you learn to really enjoy food? How about experiencing taste
and textures? I think children develop a taste for food a lot sooner
than we think.
Ways of Dealing With
Separation Anxiety
All parents will remember how difficult it was to leave their children
when they were young, and some of us had to deal with unhappy children
suffering from separation anxiety, again and again and again! Veronica
shares some tips on how to make the partings easier.
Math Games
for the Active Child
To put it in a nice way, my son is rather squirmy. He doesn't like to
sit still for very long unless he's playing a video game, then it's just
amazing. So instead of constantly telling him to sit down and do his
math, we take it outside or up the stairs, literally...
