So ….. I am really writing on this subject??! Our kids have been struggling with this lately, so it is kind of comical for me to appear like the expert on this subject! A couple of ideas that HAVE been working this week because we have really been cracking down on bickering: If anyone has an unkind voice toward a sibling, I have been asking them to bring be a bar of soap and stick their tongue out.  One swi

We have never stayed on schedule all day, haha! But the schedule does help, and I am so thankful for the scheduling kit I got from titus2.org.  It is called Managers of Their Homes.  I have the others about chores and school, and they’re great, too.  Some moms look at it and feel like it is not good for them since they are a small family.  But I disagree!  I was a mess when I only had one kid, and the sc

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

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

Q: What do you do about situations with siblings when one tattle-tales, yet what the sibling they’re tattling on is doing probably isn’t best. It’s like, I don’t want to reward the tattle-tale behavior, but also, how do I let a sibling that was doing something *wrong* get away with it? It’s very tough and I pray for leading in this. Let me know any thoughts you have–experience, e