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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

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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

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Our Back2School Story

At some point you look through the case-history and decide to accept labels.  Red flags were there the times one appeared “clumsy” and when the other stopped talking.  Red flags were thrown in your face when you were the director

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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

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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

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schedule learning AND fun

Today I heard a parent say “I try and schedule some fun, because my kids work hard learning all week.” Then I heard a provider say “I try and schedule a lot of learning into a little amount of time,

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A Peaceful Place

Like I said at the end of our last blog, no matter how scheduled your day is and how appropriate your spaces are for each activity there will always be times of chaos.  Maybe a child isn’t feeling well, or

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Kids & CHORES

Ideas and questions are rolling in and its’ hard to pick where to continue, but since a couple parents latched on to the kids taking care of their own belongings – we’ll go that direction. In the LAST BLOG I

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Subscriber Homework

Homework.  Our kids have it and so should we.  Like I said in the last blog “we never stop learning.”  And apparently some of you want to learn about organization. So, I went back to the learning board myself –

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It takes a village

“It takes a village” was a thought commented on by many after the last blog.  Parents and providers have been discussing the importance of the sense of village.  They have agreed that the village includes family, friends, neighbors, and communities

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