Parents, do your children know about strangers? Are you comfortable letting your children answer the telephone or front door if you are home or if they are home alone? Take a minute to go over the following safety tips with your children. They could prevent your child from becoming a victim of crime. Read more…
Children love exploring at the beach – the combination of dry powdery sand, wet squidgy sand that can be moulded, and water is intriguing, and allows for endless experimentation, building, modelling and finding out about how things work and feel. Very often children also like building roads, towns, forts, castles and other constructions, and then either use their imagination, or small shells or pebbles as cars or people, and use the sand and water as the scenery for their small world of pretend play. Read more…
Let’s face it, homeschooling is messy! It makes for a messy house, messy kids, and an overall messier life. Don’t we all, as homeschool moms, desire for the picture perfect day like in a Norman Rockwell painting– a cozy house filled with fresh faced, bare-footed children, diligently working away at their schoolwork while the aroma of a pumpkin candle and the sound of Mozart fills the air. While most of us would love for homeschool to look like that everyday, the truth is, those days just don’t happen that often. Read more…
As a parent, do you feel like technology has taken over your teenager’s world? Does your teenager spend what seems like hours texting or literally hours on the computer? Or do you sometimes feel a sense of distance in your relationship with your teenager because technology? Here are 7 tips for parents of the wired generation: Read more…
In any media frenzy,lately, Britney Spears is at the top of the list when it comes to celebrities and controversy. What do you think – is she a puppet of the press or does her public humiliation reflect the downfall of our society? Erratic behavior, such as shaving off her hair, attacking the paparazzi or posing without underwear, is one thing. But don’t you believe we should draw the line on America’s addiction to B-list bad girls when the best interests of their children are at stake? And, if parents act irresponsibly and are unable to care for their young children, is it up to their own parents – often hard working, card carrying members of the Sandwich Generation – to step in? Read more…