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How to Create a Quiet Moment with a Houseful of Kids
Finding quiet time can feel a lot like finding a needle in a haystack (or the keys in the diaper bag). This can often leave us feeling burned out and frustrated with those around us. Here are seven ideas to add some quiet to your day.
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Permission to Breathe
If you’ve ever wished you could do MORE for your children (even though you’re doing the best you can), here’s a fresh perspective.
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Why Gratitude Matters
Ever feel at your breaking point? See how gratitude helped one mother who was there.
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Everything Starts Messy
Children just might be the messiest people on the planet, but they are also the best plants I’ve ever produced. Perhaps a little mess is how the best things grow.
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Book Review: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Are you looking to finally de-clutter your house? This book really is what it claims in the title: life changing. It’s an easy-to-read way that guides readers to systematically de-clutter their homes, and, in the process, their lives.
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Book Summary: The Seeds of Love, Growing Mindful Relationships
Jerry Braza uses the analogy of a garden, as well as wisdom from many different beliefs and cultures, to teach us how to cultivate goodness in our own minds. By doing so we create optimal conditions for developing “mindful relationships” with those we love.
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Three Systems to Encourage Accountability
Do you ever feel like you’re just spinning your wheels and never getting anything done? Read one mom’s account of how she gets things done while also teaching her children responsibility.
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Book Summary: How To Hug a Hedgehog
Raising teenagers does present new parenting challenges. This book is helpful in identifying some of the hard things teenagers are going through and what we, as parents, can do to help them.
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When Kids Are Mean
It’s happened to all of us, but somehow it’s so much more painful when it happens to our kids! What do you do when your child comes home in tears because of mean kids? Here are some insights to help your child feel tough when the bullies get rough.
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Coming-of-Age Celebrations
Our children will one day be full-fledged adults in the real world where self-respect, self-discipline, responsibility, wise decisions, and hard work are required. What can we do now to help them become that way?
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Spiritual Sundays: When It Feels Like Someone Knocked Down Your Blocks
I don’t mind building. I love to create, to see something begin to take shape. But this time I am going to do things a little differently. I am going to trust Him to design a new pattern.
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Favorite Children’s Books of 2014
Catherine’s annual list of her and her children’s favorite picture books is here! Some old, some new, all wonderful.