“The easy way is not always the best way.”
Anonymous
And that might be the best lesson you can teach your children. I can still remember one of the smartest kids in Britt’s college class failed a course because he decided to take the easy way out and hand in someone else’s term paper. How dumb […]
Every once in a while I pull a book off my shelf just to see what I have and today it’s The Charm of Simple Things.
I began thumbing through it and thought that of all my blogs, maybe this would be the perfect one. Anyone who knows me, knows that a love of […]
In many respects, the preteen years mimic adolescence, but without one essential ingredient: hormones.
Author: Balter, Lawrence
I wonder what my mom would say were my better years. I’m not quite sure that I want to ask her!!
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We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
Roy L. Smith
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Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.”
Rosaleen Dickson
And yes, it won’t always be easy, but then suddenly […]
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ~Phyllis Diller
Lol… you have to love the way this woman thinks, and she is dead on with this one.. well for the most part. As you probably know by now, I have two kids. They […]
“At this age [9–12], in contrast to adolescence, girls still want to know their parents and hear what they think. You are the influential ones if you want to be. Girls, now, want to hear your point of view and find out how you got to be what you are and what you are doing. […]
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
Doug Larson
Oh, I have thought so many times about that and even now I’m grinning. Brittany has thrown up her hands at the thought of having kids. Too much trouble she says. She would rather put her money into a Lotus! […]
Children do what you do. It’s still the same as with their parents generation. …
You’d be surprised at how many parent’s don’t have the time today to explore these interests with their grandchildren. It’s up to you to teach them the fun stuff! It’s an old, old saying, but the best things in life are […]
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. ~Gwyneth Paltrow
We have all been through it, and yes, Gwyneth knows what she is talking about. Time and girlfriends can make all the difference. But as a mom, I like to think that Time and Mom just might be able to offer […]
Parenting Tweens & Teens. Been there, done that.
Written by Charlene Polanosky , and Christine Young for b5media.
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