“I know our fun in the sun ends with back to school,” was the answer a child gave to “what is Labor Day”. Labor day is the holiday to honor the labor / union movements. It’s a day to celebrate…
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Sunrise or Sunset
Posted in adventure academy, All About Reading, Back2School, Child Development, Curriculums, Education, Family, Holidays, Homeschool, Language/Literacy, Learning through Play, Little Lincoln, Math-U-See, Meet our Director, Mi Families, Michigan, Mother Goose Time, Motor Skills, Organization, Our World, Parents, Providers, Reviews, RightStart Math, Social Skills, Spelling You See, Tutoring, Video Tagged with: Adventure Academy, adventures, All About Reading, astronomy, back to school, career, child care, Child Development, children, Curriculums, dance n beats, dreams, Education, explode the code, family services, film making, freedoms, friends, fun in the sun, Goals, handwriting without tears, Holidays, Homeschool, job, Labor Day, Little Lincoln, love learning, martial arts, Math-U-See, Mi Families, mom, Mother Goose Time, occupations, parents, providers, resources, right start math, schedule, social media, spelling u see, teacher, Tutoring
Future of the 4th
“For score and 7years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal…” In 1863 President Lincoln delivered such remarks through the Gettysburg Address. Years…
Posted in adventure academy, Back2School, Behaviors, Child Development, Curriculums, Education, Family, Holidays, Homeschool, Mi Families, Parents, Providers, rules, Tutoring Tagged with: Adventure Academy, dads, debates, declaration of independance, disciple, father figures, fathers, forth of july, gettysburg address, grandfathers, Mi Families, peace, role models, spanking, violence
Who’s mom?
Our last article mentioned the importance of highlighting awareness days more than just one day a year. Should we honor our mom’s more than just on Mother’s day? Should we see commercials of dad’s and kids serving breakfast in bed, doing the…
Posted in adventure academy, Child Development, Education, Family, Health, Holidays, Meet our Director, Mi Families, Parents, SIDS, Special Needs Tagged with: adoption, Adventure Academy, Education, foster care, history, mothers day, peace, sids, Special Needs
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
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
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
SAME team
There are lots of mommy and me playgroups …and clubs …and magazines and… but not enough daddy focused services, yet more and more dad’s want to be (or are) involved on that level. Mi-Dad’s express gratitude that our programs are…
Posted in Family, Holidays, Mi Families, Parents, Social Skills, Special Needs Tagged with: dads, fathers day, moms, parents, relationships, Summer, team builders
FUNctional FAMilies
After committing to resolutions discussed in the past few articles many families are reporting their homes are happier and healthier! We love hearing about such success stories so feel free to share yours below. Share your ideas to becoming a…
Posted in Chores/Housekeeping, Family, Health, Holidays, Meals, Mi Families, Michigan, Motor Skills, Organization, Parents, Providers, Video Tagged with: Easter, Goals, Indoor gym, Organization, Schedules, smoothie, Spring, spring cleaning
5 NEW – New Year’s RESOLUTIONS:
Resolution #1 – Tell yourself that you DON’T haveta stick to your SCHEDULE: Mi Families programs encourage schedules and routines, BUT not at the expense of your anxiety level! Schedules and routines can help you predict what’s to come and…
Posted in Child Development, Chores/Housekeeping, Education, Family, Health, Holidays, Learning through Play, Meals, Mi Families, Motor Skills, Organization, Parents, Providers, Uncategorized Tagged with: exercise, family, Health, Meals, new year, Parenting, play, resolutions
