You cannot plan for everything. I did not write in my planner for a deer to run into my husband’s car the other day. He’s ok, but car is not. Can’t afford a new car today and can’t share mine…
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Sun Fun
“How many days are left of summer vacation?” a child asked another. “As many as it is warm,” was the answer. “I mean how many days til’ school starts again?” the first continued. “It never ended,” was the reply. The…
Posted in adventure academy, Child Development, Curriculums, Education, Family, Health, Meet our Director, Mi Families, Michigan, Mother Goose Time, Parents, Providers, Reviews, Science, Sensory Tagged with: adventure, air, animals, art, authors, books, crafts, curriculum, family, games, Heroes A2Z, Homeschool, kid heros, library, Mother Goose Time, nature, nature detectives, real heroes read, save the world, seasons, senses, social media, Summer, summer school, summer vacation, trees
NATURE DETECTIVES
Our last few articles touched on the important roles of moms and dads. Parenting influences a child’s outcome, but does nurture or nature have greater impact? What role does father-God’s creation or Mother nature’s evolution play in the development of…
Posted in adventure academy, Child Development, Curriculums, Education, Family, Homeschool, Mi Families, Michigan, Mother Goose Time, Parents, Providers, Reviews, Tutoring, Video Tagged with: camping, crafts, creation, evolution, lesson plans, Michigan, Mother Goose Time, mystery in trees, nature, nature detective, nurture, parents, unboxing video
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
DADs & daycare
FINALLY! We are finally crossing the finish line, dotting our i’s and crossing our t’s… My Family is excited to open our doors for Mi Families (“my families”) newest program – Adventure Academy. Adventure Academy will be a unique program…
Posted in adventure academy, Child Development, Curriculums, Education, Family, Homeschool, Learning through Play, Meet our Director, Mi Families, Michigan, Parents, Providers, Uncategorized, Video Tagged with: Adventure Academy, dads, daycare, Education, fathers day, homeschooling
April is over, but…
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,…
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
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
Teachable Tools: Language and Literacy
While recently training a handful of teens/young adults I was surprised at how entitled they felt. I listened to their conversation about needing immediate gratification and their “stress” for selfish wants. As the discussion grew into a debate of wants…
Posted in All About Reading, Autism Spectrum, Curriculums, Education, Homeschool, Language/Literacy, Meet our Director, Mi Families, Reviews, Social Skills, Special Needs, Spelling You See, Tutoring, Video Tagged with: All About Reading, Autism Spectrum, Christi Morgan, curriculum, Education, Homeschool, Language, Literacy, Mi Families, Reviews, Social Skills, Special Needs, Spelling You See, Tutoring, video
