by Amy LeForge | Oct 30, 2011 | Home Management
Please welcome Carol with some wisdom for parenting while working from home AND keeping your sanity. Thanks, Carol! When you work and you have kids, what you really have is two full-time jobs. Throw in a daily commute and it’s no wonder you’re lacking sleep and you...
by Amy LeForge | Sep 26, 2011 | Toddlers
(Editor’s note: Lima shares some night-time sanity-saving strategies. Thanks Lima!) Bed-time can be battle-time for many parents. Settling your children down with a nice bedtime story seems a simple enough idea in principle. But when your child has dragged...
by Amy LeForge | Nov 16, 2010 | Parenting
When the older boys were just toddlers we were friends with a family that had three pre-teen children. The one message we heard from them constantly revolved around how busy they were keeping up with the kids’ schedules. They quickly became the anti-…. read the...
by Amy LeForge | Sep 20, 2010 | Home Schooling
In typical September tradition, I’m here to tell you how we’re doing with homeschooling so far. The older boys are now in 7th grade, while the younger ones are in 3rd. We got delayed by my knee injury last winter so they didn’t finish 2nd and 6th...
by Amy LeForge | Aug 10, 2010 | Thoughts from Amy
Yesterday, Kathy’s guest post described the behavior of parents who have ambitions for their children. According to Kathy, “The problem with most parents today is that they tend to force on their children ambitions that were once upon a time theirs,...