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Hey, Kathy – a departure from our recent topic. My baby isn’t enjoying blanket time, and he spends about 50% of the time crying and sobbing and trying to crawl off. Today was especially traumatic; I think he played about 8 minutes (out of 20) and spent the rest hysterical, sopping with tears and sobbing for me constantly. He didn’t respond if I tried to show him his toys or get him interested
Be a missionary!
On the mission field we had some great experiences. We traveled, saw many countries, ministered as a family, and learned how to be best friends with each other.
There really were no peers really because Japanese kids went to cram school in the evenings and had public school on Saturdays. Our kids didn’t notice that they were being deprived of peers because they had each other to play with
Posted on : 01-01-2010 | By : Kathy | In : Child Training
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Q: ”I am trying so hard to be a loving and Godly parent, but I just don’t think I can do it. I always feel like a failure.”
A: Are there people criticizing you? Or is it just coming from yourself? Remember the the enemy is the “accuser of the brethren,” accusing us before the Father night and day. He is such a liar!! When you refuse to listen to him, you defeat him and hi
Grace is three years old, and she still goes potty:every time she gets up from sleep time
before every sleep time
after every mealThis means she ends up going every one-two hours!
I still have to walk around the corner where she can’t see/hear me in order for her to actually “go”.
I don’t want to tell her to go potty all day, so after meals I usually say, “Where should you go?̶
Chapter 11 — “He Lived What He Taught Us”
“My Father did not push us to prayer, he led us–first by the consistent example of being a pray-er himself, then by asking the blessing (a phrase he thought more accurate than ‘saying grace’) at meals, and by gathering all of us together after breakfast for family prayers, as described in Mother’s article. I do not say that we
Posted on : 09-12-2009 | By : Kathy | In : Child Training
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Question: I am wondering what I should do about my toddler son whining all day long. He pulls on me, cries, and constantly wants me to grab his little fingers and walk around with him.
He slept during all his nap times, and I put him down 2-3 additional times because I thought he might be tired or something. He never slept during the extra nap times, just kicked and played.
I can’t walk him around every s
If you are just beginning potty training, see the list at the bottom of the email. You can do it!! I have used “she” many times in this post because some of the info came from an old email I wrote to a friend who was potty training a girl. Please switch out the pronouns as needed! :O) I had trouble training many of my kids in this area, and I feel like it may have been because I was too worried a
Let me know what you think of this site:
http://www.free-clep-prep.com/practice-clep-tests.html
It claims to have free practice tests. Josh (age 11) says he can’t wait until he can take CLEP tests because then he gets to drive to Salem with Dad and eat at Baja Fresh.
Posted on : 24-11-2009 | By : Kathy | In : Child Training
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Matt wrote this right after his birthday in October:
Hi, my name is Matthew. I am ten years old; my tenth birthday was seven days ago and Minami Watanuki, a friend of ours, (also a Japanese exchange student) gave me a Coldstone (an ice cream shop) gift card for my birthday. So my mom and me went to Coldstone.
After we got our ice cream, another family (with two cars) came in to get some ice cream. Later when they w
Homeschooling:I try to spend one-on-one time with our youngest child before I start the more intense schooling with the others so she sees that she is important to me. Then she can face the day secure and ready to obey and be separated from me a little. Then I move up the ladder to the first-grader and spend time with him. It is easy to teach a 3 or 4-year-old beginning reading with phonics flashcards, so
