ABOUT THE SERIES: This summer, I’m working on developing my kids’ love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Each week, we’re focusing on a specific characteristic. Through this series, I’m giving you the books, discussion questions and action plans we’re using. This week: Teaching Joy Up for debate: Whether choosing family-vacation week to teach my kids […]
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ABOUT THE SERIES: This summer, I’m working on developing my kids’ love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Each week, we’re focusing on a specific characteristic. Through this series, I’m giving you the books, discussion questions and action plans we’re using. This week: Teaching Love Growing up, my parents and I had a complicated […]
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With patience: I start by owning my struggle. (One of my kids takes that as a challenge, like a pre-teen version of “Hold my beer.”) But still I try.
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NEW SERIES! My process for teaching my kids: Love. Joy. Peace. Patience. Kindness. Goodness. Faithfulness. Gentleness and Self-control.
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Those 20 pounds had to go. Eighteen months earlier, I’d been down 40 pounds, but since then, my weight had crept back up. Getting rid of the 20 I’d put back on was part of my grand plan as I retooled motherbility this winter. Instead, I gained another 10. Argh. My friends, if mental flogging […]
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My sons will never meet my dad. I’ll never meet da Vinci. But thanks to the notebooks these men left behind, we know them. And I’m continuing the tradition.
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A small adjustment during yoga class helped me touch my toes for the first time. And I realized a valuable life lesson: Small adjustments make a big impact.
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A friend of mine recently asked me to edit a book she’s written. “Well, I mean, it’s not really a book,” she said. “It’s more like a booklet.” — Mary Burke, the former Trek executive who ran for governor in 2014, told me she was grateful for her early supporters “who saw the potential in […]
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You’ve set up your summer survival house rules and your schedule. Remember to have some fun! Try these options for fun things to do with your kids this summer.
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With kids home for the summer, managing your time becomes critical. Here’s how to set yourself up for mompreneur success this season.