How to Emotionally Help your Child with Social Distancing at School
Our kids are back at school in person this year, and there are a LOT of creative ways being implemented to keeps our kids safe while they’re there. Some of those things include masks and additional hand washing, but the majority of those safety precautions involve social distancing. I was at a Moms in Prayer meeting a few weeks ago, and a couple of the moms were talking about the effects of this social distancing on their kids. One of our school’s protocols is to keep the classes separated when they go out for recess, basically isolating each class from the others. Although the entire 5th grade is outside at…
Guaranteed Ways to Make Your Kids Feel Loved
Everyone feels alone and unloved sometimes. Kids are no exception. Sometimes they lash out in anger, sometimes they throw horrible tantrums, sometimes they break things, sometimes they fall into depression or anxiety when they don’t feel loved. But there’s a surefire way to ensure your kids feel loved and safe in your family, and today I’m going to share some guaranteed ways to make your kids feel loved. Not only will they feel loved, but you’ll be raising happy kids too! Why kids need to feel loved When kids feel loved they feel safe. They feel protected. They feel like someone’s got their back if something scary happens. Feeling loved…
12 Surprising Skills Teens Need to Know
My husband is a college professor and we both love having college students over to our house. We have students over for dinner and for bible study, and the conversations we have are great! Some of the best ones have involved huge mistakes they’ve made when they tried to do things they took for granted because their parents did them when they lived at home instead of learning how to do those things themselves. We’ve had some pretty funny laughs hearing their mishaps, but in all honestly, as parents, it’s our job to teach our kiddos how to do these things BEFORE they go to college and turn all their…
7 Magic Words to Immediately Stop Your Child’s Meltdowns
We’ve all been there – at the mall or the family gathering or the restaurant. That horrifying, magnifying moment we tell our child no and they go into full-out tantrum mode, kicking and screaming and flailing about because they’ve been denied something they desire. We cringe in horror and embarrassment as all around us other adults are staring and judging and all we want to do is run away and hide! All kids throw fits. It’s how they begin to express their anger or their disappointment in not getting their own way. It’s a pre-verbal behavior to communicate they are unhappy or dissatisfied with something. Fits communicate they want a…
An Inside Look at our Secret Bedtime Routine
How would your evenings change if it only took you 20 minutes to put your kids to bed? What if there were no arguments, no fits, and no fighting when you told the kids it was time for sleeping? Impossible, you say? It’s not! And I can prove it. When it’s time for bed, it takes us 30 minutes to get our kids to sleep. It takes about 20 minutes to get through the nightly routine, and then our children are typically asleep about 10 minutes after we turn the lights off. Every. Single. Night! It’s not magic I promise! Here’s what we do. This post may contain affiliate links,…
