Old Fashioned Ways to Inspire Children

•Backyard Snow Activities For Children
You look outside and see a beautiful blanket of white snow covering the ground. Your children are inside getting more and more restless as the morning progresses. The next time this happens, turn off the TV, bundle up the kids, and head outside for some old-fashioned fun in the snow. Snowman Who says lumps of coal are a bad thing at Christmastime? All you need to make a snowman is a few lumps of coal (or rocks) for eyes and a mouth, a carrot for a nose, sticks for arms, and a scarf and hat...

•3 Ways To Inspire A Love Of Reading In Your Children
If your child is showing little interest in reading, there is hope. Sometimes moms and dads have to get sneaky, but you can still turn your child into a reader, even if he is reluctant about it. 1. The Early Bedtime trick. One of my favorite ways to get my kids to read is something they hopefully will not figure out until they have kids of their own. Two words “Early Bedtime”. You might be wondering how an increase in sleep can help your child to spend more time reading. Well, here's the...

•Cooking Fun Teaches Life Lessons
One of the most fun ways to spend time with your kids is by cooking meals together. You’ve got to prepare meals anyway, so you might as well have spend time with your kids. It’s better than cooking alone, right? Cooking with kids not only is an easy way to spend quality time, it gives you the opportunity to teach the basic skills that your children will need as adults. There’s nothing sillier than a college student who doesn’t know how to bake a potato. These are simple life skills and are as...

•Summer Safety Tips For Children
Summer is a fun time, but it’s also a time when a lot of accidents happen. Here are some ways to keep your children safe this summer. Water safety. If you have a pool or plan to be around the water at all, then make sure you’ve got all security devices in place. All gates must be locked, and alarms installed, especially if you have non-swimming children at home. Some general simple rules for children around any body of water are: 1. No running or horseplay near the pool. 2. Kids only...

•Old fashioned Ways to Raise Creative Children
Take a stroll through any toy store and you will be bombarded with walls and walls of toys that are just plain LOUD. These toys all require batteries, most have blinding, pulsating lights, some have well-known characters molded or stamped into them, and they all assault the senses and seem to turn our little ones into mindless zombies. So, what happens to those of us who want to raise children with imagination and curiosity? We make a choice. We fill our houses with some good old fashioned...

•5 Activities To Encourage A Love Of Math In Your Children
Oftentimes parents invest a lot of money in thick workbooks to teach their kids math. Some children are open to workbooks. Others are not. If your child is bored by workbooks, don't fret. There are plenty of other ways to teach math – and they’re fun! Board Games Dust off your Monopoly game and your game of Life. Counting money is great practice for learning math. If your child is old enough, ask her be the banker. Cooking Cooking is a wonderful way to teach addition, multiplication,...

•5 Simple Ways Connect With Your Husband
Have you ever rolled over in the morning and not known the man lying next to you? I’m not referring to that time back in college - I’m talking about the present. After years of marriage, you may start to feel like your husband is a stranger. Or is it that you feel he’s getting stranger? Either way, here are 5 simple ways to stay connected to your husband. 1. Cook a meal together. Whether it’s breakfast or dinner it doesn’t matter, as long as you’re spending time together. How about getting...

•5 Movies From Your Childhood To Share With Your Kids
Brand new movies are great! It’s so much fun standing in line at the theater, breathing in the buttery popcorn smell, giddy with anticipation when a new movie is released. My children love watching the latest and greatest movies, but I just grin when I hear my children singing the songs I used to sing as a kid – “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” or “Tomorrow”. Hearing their little off-key renditions is the best music to my ears. Have you introduced your children to the movies you enjoyed...

•How to Start a Santa Letter Business
Money is tight in a lot of families right now. Everywhere, women are trying to think of ideas to make money to help bring in a little extra income. You don't want to fall for a scam but you do want something that is easy to do and still have time for your kids. There are a lot of legitimate businesses available, although it can oftentimes be hard to find them. Starting a Santa letter business may be just what you're looking for. What is a Santa Letter Business? Every year, children all over...

•Fourth Of July Educational Activities For Children
Patriotism is more than being a proud citizen of a country. It is also knowing the history and respecting what others have done to make the present freedoms possible in the land in which you live. During the various patriotic days celebrated over the course of the year, teach your kids why they are important. The patriotic day we most often think of is the fourth of July. This is the day that Americans celebrate their independence from British rule. The thirteen original colonies were now...