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We know you love your mom and want to celebrate her this Mother’s Day!
Download this free Mothers Day activity from Clive & Ian! Click here:
The whole family will enjoy filling the page out together – moms and dads, fill it out about your own moms! Then help your kids create a very special Mothers Day memory sheet that mom will treasure.
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As the mother of two boys, I am sincerely asking this question. Thankfully, boys’ fashions tend to be easier to circumnavigate the whole modesty issue for girls. Jeans, t-shirts, dress oxford shirts, cargo shorts, chinos, sports shoes, dress shoes, hiking boots… have I missed anything?? But today’s teen girls’ fashions seem to walk that dangerous edge of adult women’s fashion, much of which is meant to be “sexy” and alluring to men.
Have the words “sexy” and “beautiful” become synonymous?
The argument can be made that we shouldn’t teach our children to judge a book by its cover. Perhaps we, who do [...] Read More
Most of us know that the Seder meal is a traditional Passover meal celebrated by Jews since the Exodus. It is the Hebrew “Thanksgiving”, as they are giving thanks to God for deliverance and redemption. For Christians though, Seder is done in remembrance of the Last Supper, in which Jesus took bread and wine and established the New Covenant. Today is the day we remember that Jesus is the Bread of Life and that His blood washes away the sins of the world.
If you’re interested in hosting a Christian Seder meal, but don’t know where to begin, here are some [...] Read More
As we prepare to enter into Holy Week, many families wonder how to incorporate celebration and devotion that is age appropriate for even the littlest people in the family. It’s a perfect time to revisit the stories of Palm Sunday, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection.
Palm Sunday
This weekend, during Palm Sunday, many churches will spend their service times retelling the story of Jesus entering into Jerusalem while people were waving palm branches and shouting “Hosanna”, welcoming him into the city. But what does all this symbolism mean to a kid? It’s a great opportunity to share with them that in the [...] Read More
This week I took my kids to go see the movie, The Lorax. I’m a huge Dr. Seuss fan and felt the previews of the movie looked interesting, even though the story was a bit different than the one which is found in the book.
In the book The Lorax, Dr. Seuss uses a lot of personification. The Once-ler represents industry and the Lorax represents the environment. The movie builds around these characters.
{Spoiler alert!!}
The movie is beautifully animated. It is about Ted, a young boy who lives in the walled up and perfectly artificial town of Thneedville. There are no longer [...] Read More
When our children were little, we were able to protect them from just about every danger. We would cover the electrical outlets, put locks on all the cabinets, and we braced all the heavy furniture so it wouldn’t fall over on top of them. When they started playing outside we taught them to look both ways when crossing the street. At some point they became little chatter-boxes, and we told them to not talk to strangers. We were sometimes called helicopter parents by the media, because we would hover around our children, sometimes to the point of ridiculousness, or so [...] Read More
Evidently we Americans are raising spoiled brats who are picky eaters, bad sleepers and lack self control. According to Pamela Druckerman, author of the new parenting book hitting the shelves next week, Bringing Up Bebe, we Americans (apparently) have a lot to learn about parenting from our French friends.
Ms. Druckerman moved to Paris with her husband not long before getting pregnant with her first child. She quickly noticed that parenting in France was different from what she had seen in the States: “The moms never feel guilty and the children are boisterous and curious, but well-behaved.”
Druckerman, a Wall Street Journal [...] Read More
Watching the Golden Globes last week, I cringed when Meryl Streep let a curse word slip out on live television during her acceptance speech. It’s not that cursing on television shocks me anymore, it was just so disappointing for me to see one of the most talented and respected actresses of all time using such language.
Back in the 1970’s, comedian George Carlin spoke about the “7 words you can never use on TV”. That standard no longer exists. Carlin was a pretty uncensored comedian, so the fact that some of these offensive words have actually become mainstream language, speaks volumes [...] Read More
Each week we provide a list of the best of the web for families and churches.
This Week’s Currents:
1. iPhone Apps for Moms (Confessions of a Homeschooler)
A list of helpful iPhone apps recommended by a mother of four.
Source: confessionsofahomeschooler.com via JellyTelly on Pinterest
2. Valentine’s Day Printables (Money Saving Mom)
A great printable pack of Valentine’s Day activities.
Source: moneysavingmom.com via JellyTelly on Pinterest
3. Printables for The Mitten by Jan Brett (Homeschool Creations)
A printable pack with fun activities that can be used with the book The Mitten by Jan Brett.
Source: homeschoolcreations.blogspot.com via [...] Read More
There’s been a lot of discussion this week pertaining to two anti-piracy bills known as Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. While I have been a mass media consumer for decades, I have absolutely no pirated music, movies or games on my laptop. But this got me to thinking about other so-called intellectual properties from which we might be “borrowing” from to better ourselves–our grades– and even (gasp) our blogs! At what point does fact gathering cross into the forbidden land of stealing / cheating?
For generations there have always been “those” kids at school…the cheaters. The kids [...] Read More
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