Am I the only one in the world that has issues getting my kids ready for school in the mornings? Sometimes it seems to be an endless battle. I know that the dynamics in each family are different according to how many kids verses how many parents. But I thought I would share my ideas in the chance that they might help some parents.
The suggestions that follow may seem trivial but they work. It addresses the core reason why some schools do better than others even with all other factors being equal. It is easy when planning a new fundraiser to focus on the wrong things. Here are five of the right things to focus on.
This morning two of my kids wanted to go on the computer before they left for school. Now we do have a rule that the computer doesn’t go on before school. But Sam and Kieren came to me with tidy rooms, their chores had been done, they were all ready for school with lunches packed. Everything had been done. Then they came to me and gave me a big cuddle and said:
Do you ever wonder what you have done wrong when your child does something wrong? Well, this morning I couldn’t get my daughter motivated to get ready for school. She just stayed in her bedroom and pottered around and I was getting quite concerned about the time.
With all the news about hazardous ingredients in your favorite cleaning products, do you wonder at the constant barrage of advertisements that convinced you that these products were ?New and Improved?? The drive to create and market more powerful cleaners has displaced the greater concern for the health of the public using those products. People are now asking the question whether they can trust these companies who mislead us before.
I was very fortunate in that my parents and my brothers and sisters and I had a great family upbringing. There wasn’t much money but we had lots of fun. We spent lots of fun time together. We camped, hunted, fished, played board games, had cooking and reading weekends and worked together in the vegetable garden. One thing that impressed me was the way my parents related to each other with warmth and affection.
Do you know what?: Not many people find travel books as fascinating reading. People indeed do find other places interesting, there’s just not much that can be said for books which contain a just hundreds obscure facts about different countries crammed into a book. As a fact this might sound like fun for a trivia geek, it just sounds boring to other people. The book Club Expat: a Teen Guide to Moving Abroad, however, shows that there still is hope for the travel book industry.
One of the most important things in our family is our value system. As a family we often talk about what is important to us and why. One of these values is that I promote honesty above all else and the consequences are never as severe for children who own up to something.
Route 66 in Texas offers the Baby Boom generation or the Silent Generation the opportunity to take a trip back in time. Here you will enjoy the days of the past as you visit the panhandle of Texas and see what the people of the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s and 60’s saw when they traveled across the country before the Interstate Highway system. Meeting the people along the way will make your trip extra special.
Parents are always on the look-out for tools to help make potty training easier. One of the tools available is the potty training doll.