Tough Love (parenting)

20 things kids need to know to live financially smart lives, developed by the Youth Subcommittee of the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability

Road trip clips: One clip for each kid.... If they are sweet, clip stays up, if they are not, clip comes down. Everyone with a clip on the visor gets a treat at the next stop :-) love this idea!!! Will totally be doing this

1. Play a sport. It will teach you how to win honorably, lose gracefully, respect authority, work with others, manage your time and stay ou...

Here are 20 Pillow Talk questions to connect with your child's heart. Use them at bedtime or during the day.

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Ideas from the experts and the trenches, these creative consequences for kids will mean you're never disappointed with the age-old "time-out" again.

HAPPY FAT TUESDAY EVERYONE!! I am so sorry readers, it has been a while. School has been a bit INSANE, but I am now finally on a break and can get back to blogging away! So here is my latest little project... Whoa does this bring me back to my childhood! All growing up I remember having this "terribly-great" thing called a bored jar. It was an old canning jar my mom had filled with little scraps of paper. On each scrap there was something to do, according to my brother and I some were…

Thanks to Ronald Reagon, July is National Ice Cream Month and we're celebrating all week long with ice cream crafts and activities. Today I whipped up this simple matching game for A as we continue to work on her ABC's. I google-imaged "cone" and "ice cream cone scoop" and found this great cone graphic as well as a template for a scoop. I printed off a bunch of the cones and cut them out, writing a lower case letter on each one. For the scoops, I used Photoshop to fill in each one with a fun…

ways to show your kids you love them

I was at a DotMOM Conference and heard Kathy Peel explain this very clever concept – The Clutter Jail. Kathy, author and family manager expert, created a clutter jail for her children. If they left there clutter around the house – she did not nag – she did not chastise – she did not punish. She simply picked it up and put it in jail. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. When her child discovered the item was missing he received a notice of bail to release the jailed clutter. Let your…

Tell me you don't just love a freshly laminated paper product. The smoothness. The ability to preserve your hard work in shiny plastic. I get a thrill just watching it roll off the press! Which brings me to the fact that I did a lot of laminating today, and will therefore have a lot of cutting to do tonight. So, in addition to dust, my house will now be blanketed with pesky laminate scraps that stick to everything through the magic of static electricity. I'll be finding them until Christmas…

I started doing this last year and it has worked wonders. I got the idea from a friend, but she got the original idea from the fabulous blog- The First Grade Parade. It's called a Bravo Board. I like to use a dry erase board for simplicity. It happened to be a magnetic dry erase board, so it made attaching the colors and title super easy! All my desks are arranged in groups of 4-5 per group. Each group of students gets a colored bin containing supplies. Whichever color they are designated is…

We are setting things in place to have an economy in our home, so I just created this chore ring for earning money