Lots of people are planning winter celebrations and vacations, but lots more are planning on a quiet holiday at home. believing “busy is better than bored” is a great mind-set, but by the end of the year a little boredom…
Yearly Archives: 2013
Happy Home Days
Posted in Behaviors, Child Development, Education, Family, Holidays, Organization, Parents, Providers, Uncategorized Tagged with: Christmas, craft ideas, gift ideas
The Family Tree
Tis’ the season for football, food, friends and family… It’s the season for “Thankful Hearts” – which hopefully prepares way for a season of giving and not greed… How do you keep your family’s hearts on the “reason for the…
Posted in Education, Family, Holidays, Homeschool, Science Tagged with: Education, Homeschool, Science, Thanksgiving
Fall into Fall
The temps have finally fallen… so I just turned on the heat… now I’m sitting in my hoodie and fuzzy socks watching the rain fall and leaves fall off the trees. I love that my desk is next to a…
Posted in Education, Holidays, Homeschool, Learning through Play, Parents, Providers Tagged with: Education, halloween, Homeschool, Science
A is for Autumn
It’s still pretty warm some days tricking us to think we still have time to swim, but as kiddo’s climbed outta the great lake shivering this week it forced us parents to realize that summer weather is ending quickly. As…
Posted in Back2School, Curriculums, Education, Family, Homeschool, Language/Literacy, Learning through Play, Math, Mi Families, Michigan, Organization, Parents, Providers Tagged with: Back2School, Education, Homeschool, Letter A
Mi School
Did summer seem to fly by to you? Or linger to long? Did the cold then hot temps and dry then rainy weather make it difficult to plan outings – or were you able to fill your days with summer…
Posted in Back2School, Curriculums, Education, Family, Homeschool, Learning through Play, Meet our Director, Mi Families, Michigan, Parents, Providers, Tutoring Tagged with: Back2School, Christi Morgan, Mi Families, Tutoring
Mi Programs
Since our last post a few parents and providers have contacted us wanting to know more about Mi Families – history and services. We are often asked “what other trainings to do you do” and our answer is – if…
Posted in Child Development, Curriculums, Education, Family, Homeschool, Learning through Play, Meet our Director, Mi Families, Michigan, Parents, Providers, Special Needs, Tutoring Tagged with: Child Development, curriculum, Education, events, Homeschool, Special Needs, trainings, Tutoring, workshops
your family and Mi Families
How’s your summer going? Are your kids staying busy or startin’ to get bored? Are your kids keeping toooo busy or do they have a nice balance between activities and rest times? Are activities balanced between motion movers and brain…
Posted in Education, Family, Learning through Play, Meet our Director, Mi Families, Organization, Parents, Providers Tagged with: Camps, Christi Morgan, learning through play, Mi Families, Summer
Scheduling Summer
It’s officially summer and Michigan seems to be finally warming up. Kids who complained it was too cold the other day are now complaining it’s too hot. Kids who were recently complaining about being in school are now complaining they…
Posted in Behaviors, Child Development, Chores/Housekeeping, Education, Family, Health, Meals, Mi Families, Michigan, Organization, Parents, Providers Tagged with: Challenging Behaviors, chart templates, Child Development, Chores, Education, Meals, Parent Tips
Spring into Summer Cleaning
Kids across Michigan have been making their way into summer vacation. For some this means spending time at camps, daycares, with grandma, or sitting at home… Whatever it means for your kids schedule – make sure it means that there’s…
Posted in Child Development, Chores/Housekeeping, Family, Organization, Parents, Providers, Reward Chart Tagged with: Child Development, Chores, Organization, Reward Chart
making schedules = reaching goals
Wow does time fly by quickly when you’re busy! Sorry it’s been so long since we last posted a blog. No reason is good enough not to keep up w/ informative articles for you, but the reason is that Mi…
Posted in Chores/Housekeeping, Education, Family, Health, Homeschool, Learning through Play, Organization, Parents, Providers, Uncategorized Tagged with: family, Organization, parents, providers, Routines, scheduling
