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Vocabulary is Important in Parenting

I’ve long been fond of the Love and Logic approach to parenting, mainly because of its focus on putting responsibility on children instead of the parents. By that I mean that children get to learn naturally from their mistakes at a young age. One of the keys to...

Saturday Link Roundup

I haven’t done a link roundup in, wow. A long time. I’m not going to look. Anyhoo. There is some great reading out on the interwebs, and I thought I’d try to highlight some of it. Plus there are sites that were kind enough to publish my writing, so...

FFYF: Tin Foil Edition

For today’s Fun For Your Friday I have a story to share. I had to leave the house yesterday afternoon to do some errands. I was delayed at the church and realized that if the lasagna didn’t get put into the oven soon, we were going to have dinner problems....

Magic Manners at Mealtime Winners

All right, gang. I went through the comments at the Magic Manners post and listed everyone in order of their comment. Assuming I got it correctly, the list is as follows. (Next time I’m going to remember not to chatter in the comments of a giveaway post so I...