Category: Good Reads
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Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
Ok. So I thought I’d heard everything when it came to getting kids to listen and obey. I grew up volunteering in Sunday School, worked at a daycare, my mom’s been a preschool teacher and administrator for most of my life, I have a degree in Elementary Education and I took an entire class dedicated to…
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Where’s the Instruction Manual?
Parenting and discipline is not for the birds. It’s a never ending responsibility that requires unrelenting strength and patience. And for some reason I didn’t expect it to be this way. After all, I’d watched countless families before my girls were born and I knew exactly what NOT to do. If I just did the…
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Living the dream
This winter was rough. REALLY rough. And not just here in Minnesota. It was cruel to the whole country. It took it’s toll on me mentally. In January I was starting to look for new states to live in. Where could we live without -45 degree weather? Where could we live without snow? My most…
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Three books in 8 days
We’re just a few days shy of the two week mark of Lent and this only checking into Facebook once a day an only seeing a handful of photos on Instagram when I post is going alright I guess. It’s hard I’ll admit. I feel like I’m missing out on the lives of my friends…
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Reading and Dreaming
Lately I’ve been making more of an effort to stay away from Pinterest and non-productive internet searching. You know, like learning all about how to make and use fleece bedding for guinea pig cages when we don’t even have a guinea pig nor will we be getting one in the near future. What can I…
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Read Aloud Classics: Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
I think it was in college during my Children’s Lit class when I started to dream about reading aloud to my future children. I imagined being a mom who snuggled up with my little ones before bedtime and read a chapter each night as they dozed off. We read to Mariah every night before bed…