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Easy and Healthy Lunch Box Ideas

August 20, 2012

When it comes to back to school things, my nemesis is packing lunchboxes!  It seems like I pack the same thing every day and coming up with new things that my kids will like, let alone eat, can be hard.  I’ve searched far and wide for some easy ideas to make packing lunch a little [...]

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Back to School Survival Tips

August 13, 2012

  Back to School time has arrived here in South Georgia, and the unofficial end of lazy summer days with it.  If there is anything that I don’t look forward to around this time it’s the “getting back into the swing of things” madness!  It can seem like a daunting task to get everyone up, [...]

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Public School vs. Home School: Our Choice

August 6, 2012

With back to school just around the corner here in South Georgia, I thought I would take some time to let you know what our family has chosen and why. When it was time for my oldest son Bailey to begin preschool, we knew we wanted him in a Montessori program. We began looking and [...]

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Helping Your Child Learn to Earn Money on Their Own

July 16, 2012

Over the past few weeks we have been looking at how to teach our kids about money.  We have gone over giving allowances and teaching our kids to manage money.  In this post we are going to talk about ways to help our kids earn money outside the home by working for it.  This will [...]

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Teaching Your Kids How to Manage Money

July 9, 2012

    What parent does not want to teach their child about managing money?  We casually mention the words budget and saving, but how do we let our kids know what those words actually mean?  In a previous post, I went over the concept of giving your kids an allowance, as well as, some of [...]

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How to Make Your Own Play Dough

June 22, 2012

What is it about play dough that makes it so irresistible?  Both kids and grown ups alike find themselves almost unable to resist squishing it between their fingers a time or two.  As most parents and kids are well aware, you can find play dough in almost every store, in tons of colors, and depending [...]

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Homeschool Burn-out Tips and Tricks to keep you on Track

March 26, 2012

Homeschooling is supposed to be fun, rewarding and exciting, trust me I know; I homeschooled my children for over 15 years. But there came a time where either I was burnt out or my children were. Homeschooling seemed like a daunting task daily or worse yet like were having our teeth pulled. No parent ever [...]

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Making the Decision to Homeschool

March 2, 2012

Homeschooling is a decision that some families can make easily, while others struggle to decide if it is the best option for them personally. When it came time for my family to make the decision if we were going to enroll our child/ren in public school or homeschool them, we decided on homeschooling. It is [...]

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Managing Computers as a Homeschooler

July 12, 2011

We homeschool our four kids (aged 6-13) and computers were a real hurdle for us. How do we make sure everyone gets enough time, but not too much time?  How do we keep an eye on them?  (both solved here)  How do we corral all the stuff that one inevitably collects as a computer user? [...]

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