Tag Archives: training preschoolers
Ten Uses For A Kitchen Timer
I love having a kitchen timer or two around the house! OK, if I count the one on the oven I actually have three and have been known to use them all simultaneously! Here are a few of the ways … Continue reading
Posted in homeschooling, Housekeeping, Life, preschooler chores, Schedule, Top Ten Tuesday, Uncategorized
Tagged homeschooling, Life, preschoolers, routine, shedule, Time Management, training preschoolers
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Kitchen Skills for the Three Year Old
Bull is my most enthusiastic kitchen helper these days! Considering the amount of food he puts away at dinner this is probably a good thing! We joke that he’s going to have to get a job when he’s a teen … Continue reading
Beginning Again:Chores and Inspections
The holidays are finally over, we’ve had what I hope will be our only stomach bug for this year (yes, even the baby), and it’s time to get back into the swing of school and chores. I did a little … Continue reading
Behavioral Charting
One of the things that I find most difficult as a mother is being consistent with child-training. Sometimes I feel like no matter how much I train on an issue it is not getting better (and may be getting worse) … Continue reading
Posted in Downloads, homeschooling, Organization, preschool educcation, Uncategorized
Tagged F, jobs, lifelong learning, organizing, preschoolers, Su, training preschoolers
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Checklists and Tidy Rooms
Any mother knows that one of the most frustrating things is keeping the children’s rooms cleaned up. We don’t want to do it ourselves, but enforcing clean room standards can be a daily battle and who wants a daily battle? … Continue reading
Posted in Downloads, Housekeeping, Makes My Monday, Organization, preschooler chores
Tagged Downloads, F, housekeeping, jobs, organizing, preschoolers, Su, training preschoolers, W
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Potty Training Blues
Several weeks ago W came home from church and declared: “J is a baby. He wears diapers. I’m not a baby, I don’t wear diapers. Give my diapers to B (a little boy at church).” “That’s all very well, ” … Continue reading
Posted in preschool educcation
Tagged preschool education, preschoolers, training preschoolers, W
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Silly Putty
As I’ve mentioned before one of the things that is very difficult for F is making transitions from one activity to another. He has a “one-track mind” and once he is set on something it is very hard for him … Continue reading
With Intention
Yesterday on my way out of church I stopped to talk with an acquaintance. Just a quick “Hello, how’s your summer going?” kind of thing. She’s middle-aged and single, so we don’t have a whole lot in common but we … Continue reading
Futile Words?
How many times a day do I say it? “Su take your fingers out of your mouth.” “W talk in a low voice, stop whining.” “F stop jumping on the furniture.” “Are you being kind?” ” Think before you just … Continue reading
Trying of Souls
THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Multitudes on Monday, Pages in Our Heritage of Faith, Preschool Play, Thanks
Tagged F, free play, Heritage of Faith, Jack, Su, thanks, training preschoolers, W
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