I’ve long been fond of the Love and Logic approach to parenting, mainly because of its focus on putting responsibility on children instead of the parents. By that I mean that children get to learn naturally from their mistakes at a young age. One of the keys to success in this approach is for the [...]

(Editor’s note: please welcome this guest post from Emily Patterson and Kathleen Thomas about bilingual education. Thanks ladies!) The future is a mystery, no one can say what it will hold – but if current trends continue, your child will grow up to enter a workforce in which the competition for decent-paying jobs will be [...]

I haven’t done a link roundup in, wow. A long time. I’m not going to look. Anyhoo. There is some great reading out on the interwebs, and I thought I’d try to highlight some of it. Plus there are sites that were kind enough to publish my writing, so they’re included here as well. Carnival [...]

For today’s Fun For Your Friday I have a story to share. I had to leave the house yesterday afternoon to do some errands. I was delayed at the church and realized that if the lasagna didn’t get put into the oven soon, we were going to have dinner problems. Naturally I called home and [...]

Good day, readers! Please welcome Misty Weaver and her guest post about baby sign language. I used a few signs with the boys when they were little and boy was it handy! Baby Signing is an easy and fun way to communicate with your pre-verbal child. A simplified version of American Sign Language (ASL), it [...]