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FHE with Small Children-Pioneer Day

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So, Sunday, I had the opportunity to teach sharing time in my ward. The topic was honesty, yet with pioneer day being two days away, I wanted to do something to talk about the pioneers too. I of course went to sugardoodle to look for ideas and I came across a great one to tell stories about pioneer children that were being honest. It was a great lesson. You can find that link here. The kids loved this idea so much that I thought it would make a great FHE lesson too. I decided to make a campfire for our … Continue reading →

Primary Time: The Importance of Chores

It is important that we teach our children to work. This may seem to be an obvious statement to many, but more and more children are not learning to apply themselves to jobs, and to work through the difficult problems. Working together as a family has a lot of positive benefits for the family and individual. It is extra time together, as well as a chance to talk together. Working hard is also a beneficial skill to have later in life. It can be difficult to realize when your children are old enough to begin working on certain chores, or … Continue reading →

Primary Time: Scripture Study for Your Children

I remember when my parents began having family scripture study. I was in first or second grade. They kept it short, each person who could read, read one verse. At that rate it took us years to read the Book of Mormon. However, the biggest benefit was that it made us comfortable reading the scriptures. I know that most of my sisters and brothers read the scriptures on their own now, and that they started when they were children. When you read aloud at home, you are not as uncomfortable when you make a mistake. It makes reading in front … Continue reading →

Primary Time: Goals for Primary Children

It is important to encourage your Primary children to set goals for themselves. You can do this through the Achievement Days program as well as Cub Scouts, but you may also want to extend it to your family life. While it is important to teach your children the habit of goal setting, it is important that you help them to learn to succeed. You can do this by making sure that the goals are realistic and age appropriate. You can offer guidance and support as needed. The goals that each child sets will vary on his interests and age. For … Continue reading →

FLOOR TIME: Be Your Child’s Own Personal Play Therapist!

Children with developmental delays have often missed crucial milestones in cognitive learning. Because of problems like sensory integration disorder or other neuro-processing difficulties, they’ve had “gaps” in their intellectual growth. These gaps can cause further problems as the child is not able to build upon skills which don’t exist. He or she needs intensive, daily therapy to literally start at the beginning and re-learn certain milestones to compensate for the deficiencies. Early intervention programs, therapists, educators, and specialists can all be extremely beneficial. However, it is not enough. These kids need one-on-one concentrated attention to help them climb the developmental … Continue reading →

Have You Ever Kept A Scripture Journal?

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These days it seems like we are living in a digital world. I have the scriptures on my IPod that I can easily pull out and read. In church, I frequently see people using their smart devices to read their scriptures in class. My primary chorister even uses her IPad to lead the music each week. While technology is a beautiful tool, I wonder about its effects on my own scripture study. No longer do we use red pencils to read our scriptures. And, are the days gone where your children might catch you reading your scriptures and be inspired … Continue reading →

Homeschooling During Dark Days

Homeschooling is a joy for many. Homeschooling moms have the privilege of guiding their child’s education on a daily basis through real life experiences and handpicked curriculum. Your child gets a full view of life up close and personal with no distractions and without the benefit of rosy colored glasses. So when those real life experiences involve divorce, illness, death, financial woes, or the not so somber events such as a new addition in the family or minor injury, how will you homeschool? To each a dark season will come regardless of your educational choice for your children. Often homeschoolers … Continue reading →

Your Family Money History

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This is an introduction and a question all in one. I’m new to blogging in the Money section. What brought me here? When I was growing up, money was tight. My mother was the primary provider for our family, and my dad was a stay at home dad who worked sometimes and not at others. Our family was often stressed about money. From an early age, I became interested in saving money and managing money. This was a way to take control of a hard situation, and it still is. As I grew older, I became a graduate student in … Continue reading →

Post-birth Weight Loss and its Psychological Impact

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I read an interesting article recently about new mothers and their struggle to regain their figures after childbirth. Actually, it was more sad than interesting. The article told the story of a 37-year-old woman who had given birth to her second child and immediately started a five-day-a-week gym regime. This woman fairly quickly regained her figure. But alas there still persisted those elusive silvery stretch marks and she thought that things had sagged a little as well, Anyway, the exercising hadn’t given her back a 25-year old body. But why did she think it should? And why does she feel … Continue reading →

Balancing Preschool Parenting and Work At Home

If you work at home and have a preschooler, how do you work and how do you parent? I’ve a relative newbie to this work-at-home gig. Juggling contracts and consistent blogging gigs can be a little crazy when you are also the primary caregiver for a small child. Small children know that the computer is sucking your brain away, no matter how much you work to pretend it isn’t happening. How do I structure my work at home day? Well, on my at home days, my daughter watches half an hour of television in the morning. That is the beginning … Continue reading →