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31 Everyday Ways to Connect with Your Child, Day 26: 10+ Great Questions to Ask
Sometimes we can forget that our kids are whole people…with deep needs and dreams and plans for their future that all have nothing to do with us. They can feel a disconnect when we ignore their...
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31 Everyday Ways to Connect with Your Child, Day 27: Body Outline
No, this isn’t a police experiment. I promise, it’s a fun simple way to connect with your child. Just hang with me. We’re going to draw an outline of our bodies. This is such a silly, spur of the...
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31 Everyday Ways to Connect with Your Child, Day 28: A Day of Quiet
Kids can be loud. Many children are extremely chatty. With 11 people living here we have noise happening in every room, all day long. We miss things and don’t hear all of the important moments...
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31 Everyday Ways to Connect with Your Child, Day 29: Imagination
I am constantly amazing by my kids’ imagination. They think of the most fascinating things….from dreams for their future to pretending to be in another world. To keep a strong connection, sometimes...
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31 Everyday Ways to Connect with Your Child, Day 30: Family Pictures
Do you ever wonder how your child sees you? How he sees his siblings? I love to connect with the small thoughts in my kids’ heads. Do I seem blue, or red? (I hope it’s blue!) One great way to find...
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31 Everyday Ways to Connect with Your Child, Day 31: Putting It All Together
I can’t believe it! We made it through 31 days of non-stop posts about connecting with your child. I wanted to use this last post to thank you all for hanging with me and see how you did. Did you try...
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My First Webinar and Some Winners!
I have so much to tell you all about my weekend, but that will have to wait because I am so excited about my webinar tonight that I am about to bust. That’s what we say in Texas….”I’m goin’ ta bust.”...
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Looking Back
I’ve been evaluating the past year and making decisions for 2013. I thought it would be fun to look back on my most popular posts of the year and see what you all have been the most interested in....
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The Heart of the Problem: Creative Discipline
Last week I shared on Facebook about my boys having trouble doing their chores. Two of my guys just weren’t doing them they way I had told them to, so after a couple of weeks of not getting on top of...
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10 Tips for Managing Your Kids While You’re on the PHONE
One question moms often ask me is, “Do you have any tips for what to do about my kids misbehaving while I’m on the phone?” It is a common problem. Mom gets on the phone, the kids realize she’s not...
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Are You a Mean Mom?
I got an email recently from a mom who is struggling with her pre-teen (let’s call the daughter Susie). Susie gets really upset when she doesn’t get her way and it always ends with her shouting, “You...
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The Speech We Didn’t Want to Hear
My niece was graduating this weekend, so we drove to Austin for her graduation ceremony. It was a group of homeschoolers graduating together, about 60 of them. We had the whole family there, plus a...
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Love Your Brother
With 9 kids we have many different personalities. Different interests. Lots of moods….. Despite all of that, our children have very loving, caring relationships. We have almost no arguing or fussing...
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Love Your Brother, Fair vs Just
In part 1 we talked about understanding what God has to say about loving one another. This week let’s talk about fairness. If you, as the parent, are trying to keep everything “fair” and equal then...
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What to Do About Tattling
In my series about siblings, one thing we must discuss is tattling. I get a lot of questions asking about this and I have a great method. It’s so simple you won’t believe it. I wrote about this years...
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Love One Another: Obedience is Key
One of the questions I get asked most often is about siblings fighting. “How do you keep your kids from fighting?!” There are many possible root issues for fighting and we will talk about some of...
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Helping Siblings Find Their Love for Each Other
Since it’s the day of love, I have to talk a little today about helping siblings show love for each other. Sometimes the heart comes before the actions, but sometimes the actions come first. In this...
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One of the difficulties in helping your kids build godly relationships with each is teaching them to be happy for one another. It takes maturity to set your own wants aside and let someone else get...
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10 Bible Verses for Brothers & Sisters
Many moms talk to me about how their kids fight and don’t get along. People will tell them that’s just the way it is and they should accept it. No! My guide through life is not what society tells me...
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Do Teens Need Privacy?
In the past week I have had three phone calls with desperate moms who need help in handling a teen who keeps crying out about the injustice of having their privacy invaded. I thought I’d share a few of...
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