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Preschool Party Games
Planning a birthday party for your preschooler? Party games are a great way to keep young children entertained and engaged in the party. Make sure every child gets a prize of some kind so child every goes home a winner!
Bean in Your Shoe
One player goes out of the room. A dried bean is given to one of the players to put in his or her shoe. Play some music and have all the players dance, each child pretending to have a bean in their shoe. The player that left the room comes back and tries...
The Giving Jar
by: Rachel Paxton
Giving with a happy heart. If you teach a child to give with a happy heart you will raise a child who will never hesitate to lend a helping hand. Children enjoy helping others, especially if they see their parents doing the same. When a child's basic physical and emotional needs are met, they are willing to share almost anything they have with someone in need.
My daughter wanted to help others from the time she was old enough to understand what it was she was doing....
Teaching Toddlers To Do Household Chores
I never set out to give my toddlers chores to do. You might be thinking, That's too young! Toddlers can't do chores! That's what I thought too, that is until I was constantly tripping over my boys while trying to do my own household chores.
Let's face it, toddlers want to help mom, even when mom doesn't want or need help. But what better way to teach your toddlers to do chores than letting them help mom?
The number of chores you give your child to do will depend on your child. Some kids...
Quality Time with your Teen
by: Rachel Paxton
It's sometimes difficult to find ways to be involved with your teen without totally intruding in his/her life. You want to talk to them, they don't want to talk to you (most of the time anyway). I've found the best way to connect with my teenage daughter is to enter her world and do the things she likes to do. There's a saying that if you want to understand your child's world you have to play with them, no matter how old they are.
You don't always have to be even directly...
Teaching Kids the Value of Money
by: Rachel Paxton
My husband and I have a 12-year-old daughter who wanted to go to a winter retreat with her church youth group last year. Price of trip $45. I told her I'd talk to her dad about it. HOW much is it? he asked, didn't she just go somewhere with the youth group? Yes, I replied, and also to two friends' birthday parties. Another one is coming up this weekend. We both agreed that was a lot of money for us to spend for our daughter to have fun with her friends.
But the retreat...
My Mother s Recipe Box
by: Rachel Paxton
Remember the days when cookbooks weren't so readily available, and you or your mother relied on only one or two different cookbooks for cooking all of your family's meals? I still have my mother's old cookbooks, as well as my grandmother's. Each one is worn from age and use--if you flip through the tattered pages it is obvious which recipes were turned to time and time again. These cookbooks will always number among my most precious treasures.
When our mothers wanted to...
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