by Donna | Feb 18, 2016
For complete printable lists of chores your kindergartener can do on his own (and another list on chores he can do with help!), click on the links below!
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Click here for colorful, printable chore lists for toddlers through tweens.
If you want more chores, efficiency, and organization help, check out the podcast episodes listed here.
by Donna | Jan 6, 2016
Here’s a quick overview of the ‘Freebie Fridays’ coming into your inbox this month! 🙂 Not subscribed yet? You can sign up here!
by Donna | Dec 3, 2015
If you’re subscribed to the newsletter or blog, you’ve already been receiving our Freebie Fridays…here’s a peek at what’s coming 🙂 Not signed up? You can subscribe here!
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by Donna | Nov 24, 2015
We have another new parenting/character training product! A teaching that we offer in our Raising Teens With Character seminar (as well as in our teen workshops for conventions and small groups) is our signature Recipe for Rebellion. In this teaching, we bring to light four negative parenting practice that causes teens to rebel: giving rules without reasons, giving rules without allowing a response from our children, giving rules without consistency (without repetition), and giving rules without having deep, abiding relationships with our children.
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by Donna | Oct 29, 2015
Triff. Not a word you hear just every day. But a word, nonetheless. Because I said it is! 🙂
Many years ago, early into my cottage class teaching of homeschoolers, I had favorite words/sayings that I made up to write on kids’ papers.
Two phrases really–
TRIFF—short for terrific
Wowsie, wow, wow!
If a student got one of these marks on their paper that week, they knew that they had done a great job.
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by Donna | Sep 29, 2015
Fifteen years ago I began writing my complete language arts program for second through twelfth grade students (what is now Character Quality Language Arts, CQLA). I based that program, loosely, on six programs (language arts, editing, writing, vocabulary, spelling, etc., programs) that I had been using for a dozen years with my older children. I wanted to take all of the best “part language arts” books and put them together in one. And I did that!
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