Falling in Love with your Family by Alison In a Nutshell: Potty training is as much about training you as a parent as it is about training your child to use the bathroom. Relax and enjoy! I don’t think there is anything that bring out the best and worst in parents like potty training does. […]
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Falling in Love with your Family I have a memory of going to the hospital with both of my parents to get stitches. Sitting between my Mom and Dad in the front of our Caprice Classic, my Mom reports that I said, “Everyone is going to think it’s my birthday!” In a family of seven
Falling in Love with your Family by Alison In a Nutshell: Sometimes a problem behavior just needs a change to the environment. There are lots of different ways to look at human behavior. Some experts think that our behaviors are determined genetically; some think we are products of our environment. It probably isn’t a question
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Falling in Love with your Family by Alison In a Nutshell: Fight against slipping into an exhausted, overworked, distracted marriage. It’s my favorite month! August is my anniversary month, and I love to celebrate it. Yes…the whole month! So, this month’s Falling in Love with your Family posts will all be about strengthening marriages. For
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Falling in Love with your Family by Alison In a Nutshell: Make a thrifty family instrument for $6.04! Do you want to add a little pizzazz to your summer…and give your kids a brain boost at the same time? Add some music! Music can have many functions in families. You can use music to cue
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Falling in Love with your Family by Alison In a Nutshell: Help kids use their words by giving them an emotional vocabulary. I am a bit of a poetry freak, so I was happy to find two sets of magnetic poetry kits at a yard sale. They are tiny magnets covered with random words that
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Falling in Love with your Family by Alison In a Nutshell: How to survive the Return of the Little People? Let them work, have a schedule, plan something fun every day, let them be bored, and focus your parenting. Some of us are still reeling from new summer schedules and the return of the little
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Falling in Love with your family by Alison In a Nutshell: Sometimes the best parenting plan is to plan to ignore inappropriate behavior. Confession time…I am a card-carrying Over Parenter. I tend to step in too quickly when my kids disagree, and make molehills into mountains. But I’m trying. My kids may say otherwise, but
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