This article was meant to be posted a couple weeks ago, but blogging gets pushed back when life gets complicated…and computers are broken… I had planned to share thoughts for April’s autism awareness month, and figured I’d move onto May topics,…
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April is over, but…
Posted in Autism Spectrum, Behaviors, Child Development, Curriculums, Education, Family, Health, Homeschool, Meet our Director, Mi Families, Parents, Providers, Social Skills, Special Needs, Speech Delay, Tutoring Tagged with: Adventure Academy, Homeschool, red flags, Social Skills, Spectrum, Tutoring
Happy Hearts
Last month our team worked hard encouraging others to be their own Valentine. That’s how I realized I needed to practice what I preached. But what practice would make my heart happiest? A year ago I was working just as hard, yet…
Posted in Autism Spectrum, Child Development, Education, Family, Homeschool, Meet our Director, Mi Families, Motor Skills, Parents, Providers, Social Skills, Special Needs, Tutoring, Video Tagged with: Adventure Academy, Christi Morgan, daycare, flood, happy heart, Homeschool, labels, Mi Families, remodel, Special Needs, Tutoring
Feel the love
How many of you are still holding strong to your 2015 resolutions? As mentioned in the last article most plans fail within the first month. That fact gets many down, so many have already given up, BUT if we’d only realize…
Posted in Autism Spectrum, Behaviors, Child Development, Family, Health, Holidays, Meet our Director, Mi Families, Organization, Parents, Providers, Special Needs, Video Tagged with: adventure, confidence, delay, disability, Goals, inspirational quotes, interests, labels, resiliant, resolutions, resources, respect, responsibility, self esteem, social media, success, talents, valentines, view points
resolution revelation
How is your 2015 starting off? Holding true to those resolutions? Statistically the highest percent of resolutions are health based, but almost 90 percent of those goals will fail ~ many by the end of the first month of making…
Posted in Child Development, Education, Family, Health, Meals, Meet our Director, Mi Families, Michigan, Parents, Providers, Uncategorized, Video Tagged with: breakfast, budget, dinner, exercise, food facts, Goals, Health, healthy habits, kids video, lunch, meal plan, resolutions, schedule, sides, smoothie recipe, snacks, teaching, worksheets
The Balancing Act, scene 2015, take 43
The last couple articles touched on entitlement and made me consider ways I feel entitled. After all, it’s not nice to judge and toss my opinions out there if I’m not considering my own actions… so I took an honest…
Posted in Chores/Housekeeping, Curriculums, Education, Family, Health, Holidays, Homeschool, Learning through Play, Little Lincoln, Math, Meet our Director, Mi Families, Michigan, Organization, Parents, Prometheus Motion Pictures, Providers, Reviews, RightStart Math, Safety, Special Needs, Sutton's Bay Virtual, Tutoring, Video Tagged with: Chores, Christi Morgan, curriculum, health and safety, Homeschool, Little Lincoln, math, Mi Families, Organization, parents, providers, review, Right Start Mathematics, routine, schedule, video, worksheet
thankful hearts
Sometimes it is during the hardest of holidays you are given the best of gifts. These gifts are rarely physical things wrapped up in a package, but sometimes they are. Sometimes it’s a treasure passed down generations, sometimes it’s an…
Posted in Child Development, Curriculums, Education, Family, Health, Holidays, Homeschool, Little Lincoln, Meet our Director, Mi Families, Parents, Prometheus Motion Pictures, Providers, Reviews, SIDS, Special Needs, Sutton's Bay Virtual, Video Tagged with: Christi Morgan, Christmas, Curriculums, Education, family, Health, Holidays, Homeschool, Little Lincoln, Mi Families, parents, Reviews, Sutton's Bay Virtual, Thankful Hearts, Thankful Tree, Thanksgiving, video
Entitlement?
Another month has flown by! As Mi Families continues to build up clients and consultation gigs we are trying to keep up with articles and video posts, but we may need to bring in the troops to keep up with demands!…
Posted in Autism Spectrum, Education, Family, Meet our Director, Mi Families, Michigan, Mother Goose Time, Parents, Providers, Special Needs, Tutoring Tagged with: ABA therapy, Christi Morgan, health insurance, Mi Families, Mother Goose Time, Special Needs, teamwork, Tutoring, workshops
Summer isn’t over
Recent survey shows that about ¼ of the families out there haven’t taken a “vacation” this summer. But there is still time…summer isn’t over yet! You don’t need much time, or money, or even travel plans. You can enjoy a…
Posted in Back2School, Education, Family, Homeschool, Language/Literacy, Meet our Director, Mi Families, Michigan, Our World, Parents, Providers Tagged with: back to school, book swap, camping, Christi Morgan, family, Homeschool, Mi Families, Michigan, Summer, vacation
Summer School
When working with students to avoid the “summer slide,” I try and make “summer school” feel more like “summer camp.” Through fun themes such as “Phineas and Ferb” we work on reading, writing, math, science, social studies … We work…
Posted in Curriculums, Education, Family, Learning through Play, Mi Families, Our World, Parents, Providers, Science, Social Skills, Special Needs, Uncategorized Tagged with: CAMP, character, Education, Mi Families, NMC college for Kids, Phineas and Ferb-tastic Activities, Science, Social Studies, Special Needs, virtues
Summer Smart
Last weekend Mi Families (“my families”) asked children what holiday they were celebrating … almost every kid answered “Cherry Festival!” I think Traverse City area needs to consider that message. Still, those kids were seeing “independence” in action and many…
Posted in Education, Family, Holidays, Homeschool, Meet our Director, Mi Families, Michigan, Motor Skills, Sensory, Social Skills, Special Needs, Speech Delay Tagged with: 4th of July, Education, family, home-made T-stool, Homeschool, Mi Families, Special Needs, Summer
