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Sunday, October 26, 2014

Parenting Tip - How To Be Happy

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One of my favorite authors is Gretchen Rubins who wrote The Happiness Project and Happiness at Home . Her ideas are so simple and doable, y...
Sunday, September 21, 2014

Parenting Tip - You DO Make a Difference

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For all mothers and women, and men, and....... and sisters and cousins.  For all of us.  This message will bring you comfort. Maybe thi...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Parenting Tip - Grandmothers

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Grandmothers.  Unconditional love.   Special treats.   Toys.  Stories. What is there about grandmothers that bring a lump to the throat, a...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Parenting Tip - I Could Have Been Rich, Instead I'm Happy

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I just finished reading Paul Stutzman's book "Hiking Thru" .  I cried and laughed all the way through it.  This is a man who l...
Saturday, August 9, 2014

Music Tip - Sign up for a class!

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Hey Moms and Grandmas- Want to have some fun with your preschoolers?  Sign up for the PARACHUTE music class I'm teaching at the IDEA M...
Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Parenting Tip - Slow Down-Look up

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  "It is not so much the major events, as the small day to day decisions that map the course of our living." Gordon B. Hinckle...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Parenting Tip - Daily Checklist for my Children

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Are you a LIST person?  Do you make lists and check them off?  I definitely am a list person--so is my mother--so are my 3 daughters.  If ...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

Music Tip - Smart Phones and Piano

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Here's a clever idea to motivate your children to practice. I received a musical text of my granddaughter playing The Entertainer on th...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

Music Tip - Music from Frozen

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Here are my simplified versions of music from the movie Frozen.  There are several editions out on the internet, but none of them matched th...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Parenting Tip - More Summer Ideas

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Do you know about Audacity ? It is a free recording and editing program you can download to your computer and it will give your children ton...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Parenting Tip - 37 Things to do this Summer

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Several years ago I compiled the following list of Things-to-do-instead-of-watching-tv.  I mailed it to my grandchildren with an empty co...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

Parenting Tip - Homemade Toys

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 I've been experimenting with HOMEMADE TOYS.  This is a subject that I've tinkered with ever since becoming a Mom.  And now that I...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Parenting Ideas - Summer Time!

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Summer time, oh, it's summer time...... I've been asked to teach a class at church on ideas for summer fun.  I decided to post som...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Parenting Tips - Be Nice

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Summer is here.  School is out.  I'm depressed. I've been crying for no reason and can't think or plan future events, make decis...
Sunday, May 25, 2014

Parenting Tip - Use the Internet for Good in Your Family

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 Have you noticed that anything good in the world has it's opposite?  Think of the contrasts you see in music, movies and books--so much...