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When in Doubt Choose the Kids

  If we are not careful work,  commitments, volunteering, and obligations will fill our schedules and leave no time for us to spend quality time with our kids or to have fun with them.   Make room in your day and week for your kids and loved ones.  If you need to put it on your […] Read more…

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The Importance of Teaching Kids Creativity

Creativity has always played an important part in my own life. I can remember drawing and writing little stories from about the age of nine. Now my own grandchildren are doing the same. This is such a great part of a well-rounded development and it actually helps develop a part of the brain when kids […] Read more…

The Art of Reading and Writing

There is something about holding a pencil in your hand and the smell of a freshly sharpened lead point as you touch pencil to paper and the scribbling hits your ear. One letter in front of the other to form a word and then a paragraph.  Its sort of like holding a genuine book as […] Read more…

Idea #26- A Special Card for Your Child’s Lunchbox or Pillow

Do you remember opening my your lunchbox with anticipation, as you sit in the lunchroom beside your classmates, to see what you have packed in your lunch.  Sometimes those little extra touches are enough to cheer up a otherwise typical school day.  Lunch is the only time your kids get downtime from learning, listening, and […] Read more…