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One More Visit To The Petting Zoo

School starts today, so before we returned to busy days and busy weekends filled with schoolwork and projects, we headed over to our local petting zoo for one more fun day of checking out the cute little llamas and piglets and chickens… … and running around playing hide and seek when the animal feed ran […]

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How to Help Your Energetic or Distracted Child Focus

You’ve probably lost count of the times you have given your son a simple command, like “Go clean your room,” only to find him (minutes later) jumping on his bed, surrounded by toys. Obviously no cleaning has occurred. Instead, like every time before, he got sidetracked. Distracted. It’s challenging to help our energetic, easily distracted, […]

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Just Get Out And Play!

This summer we made sure to get out every day and enjoy the sun and time off from school, and discovered that our boys are quite the little athletes. In past years they sort of sat on the sidelines and watched other kids play, having no interest in joining in, so this year we decided […]

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The Moments In Between The Rushing

Raising boys is a never-ending adventure, and while there are definitely challenges, there are many more wonderful aspects. I feel so busy most days between household chores, writing blog posts, and shuttling my sons between school and lessons and play dates, and those slow moments I always wish would happen, where we’d just sit together, […]

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