by tmom-dfw26 | Nov 11, 2013 | Stay at Home Mom
If you are even the slightest bit like me, you savor crawling between clean sheets at the end of a day and sinking your head into your pillow just so! Arranging the covers and wiggling around until it’s a perfect nest of coziness! And you’re out. You kids? Not so...
by tmom-dfw26 | Oct 30, 2013 | Technology Man
Your day has spun wildly off its course. You woke up to a coughing sneezing child while zipping around getting the others off to school (on time!), tore a nail on the way out the door, forgot your library books that are due today AND your grocery list, which now needs...
by tmom-dfw26 | Oct 18, 2013 | Stay at Home Mom
Most of us moms approach the task of potty training our children with excitement, fear and a healthy dose of trepidation. It is a rite of passage of sorts for both mom and child. Moving from diapers which provide security (to some degree) and predictability (for the...
by tmom-dfw26 | Oct 6, 2013 | Educated Parenting
Okay, I know what you’re thinking. Karen, I already breezed through your post on the three main Learning Styles and waded my way through your post on Multiple Intelligences. I think I’ve got it. Why are you writing about this topic again? Good question. It’s not to...
by tmom-dfw26 | Oct 3, 2013 | Blended Parenting
It’s so true, isn’t it? It doesn’t really matter where people find themselves, they always want to be somewhere else. Or be someone else. Or live somewhere else. Or work someplace else. Or learn something else. Ask a teenager and you’ll get a whole laundry list of...
by tmom-dfw26 | Sep 23, 2013 | Encouragement from the Edge
This song of encouragement has ministered to my aching soul on more than on occasion! Biblical truth, encouraging words and an awesome beat equals a triple crown! We all have days where we feel like we are drowning. Those days it’s a huge struggle just to come up for...
by tmom-dfw26 | Sep 11, 2013 | Technology Man
“We’ve got spirit, yes we do! We’ve got spirit, how about you?” We all love a good cheer or chant! I’m talking about the ones that are simple, positive, support your team and allow you to show your enthusiasm all at the same time! “Go Rangers Go!” “Go Cowboys Go!” “Go...
by tmom-dfw26 | Sep 6, 2013 | Recommended Resources
“There’s singing time and dancing time and laughing time and playing time and now it is our favorite time, signing time!” That’s the opening line to the theme song of Signing Time, Rachel Coleman’s first educational DVD series for kids! Then came the second series...
by tmom-dfw26 | Sep 2, 2013 | In My Opinion...
In my opinion, things should work! You spend your hard earned money on a product you want or need only to find it doesn’t deliver in the way it was advertised. Then what? You’re out the money with little recourse. Yes, you can probably return it, if you have the...
by tmom-dfw26 | Aug 25, 2013 | Parenting a Gifted Child
Identifying giftedness in children is one of the most challenging and elusive issues facing parents and educators today, in my opinion. How do classroom teachers who are seriously busy with 20+ children for whom they must teach, prepare for standardized tests,...
