“I wish…I could shoot the basketball better.” “I wish…I had enough money to buy that Lego set.” “I wish” is a phrase I used to hear from my oldest son throughout the day. He wished for a lot of things. Unfortunately for him, none of those things really started happening for him until we started …
Do you have a vision for your family? Setting family goals is a good way to help you achieve that vision. Examples of family goals include things like choosing to eat dinner together three times a week or getting out on a family walk every day. Family goals don’t need to be overwhelming or difficult. …
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Does holiday gift giving get out of hand at your house? As parents it can be so easy to become carried away. We want our kids to have the best at the holidays. Which seems like a good thing. Until it isn’t so good. We started only giving 4 things for Christmas because we realized …
It wasn’t long ago that I felt disenchanted with our advent calendar. The holidays are stressful. Instead of building anticipation about the coming holiday, our advent calendar simply dispensed bits of chocolate to my already sugared-out kids. Each day my kids ate their chocolate and I felt a little more frazzled as Christmas day approached. …
It’s so easy for kids to accumulate things. It seems like they get toys, trinkets, and “stuff” for every little event. To combat this intense focus of getting more stuff, our family has started doing more experience gifts. We want our kids to know that not every valuable thing is something you can hold in …
