How often do I get asked “Where on earth do you find the time?” Frankly there are only twenty four hours in a day. And alas we have to sleep for some of them!!! I think what happens so easily is we try and do too much, we spread ourselves thin. And I have to [...]
Se7en Ways to Find “The Time…”
March 10th, 2010 · 6 Comments
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Saturday Spot : The To-Do List…
February 8th, 2010 · 7 Comments
In the Spirit of BackRooms and Getting Things Done… I know I need to get to The Lab which has to be sorted before school begins again, into some sort of order. This is a little room off our kitchen, which no matter how hard we try always ends up as the dumping zone. It [...]
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Se7en is NOT Doing Nothing and a New To-Do List…
February 3rd, 2010 · 27 Comments
How many times have I been asked what on earth do I do all day, stuck at home with my kids. All that free time. I must be so bored!!! In a world that is task orientated, where success is measured by ticking things off your to do list or worse by what you are [...]
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Se7en Do Christmas: Step 3 – Plotting And Planning Gifts…
November 21st, 2009 · 6 Comments
As we wander on down through November I realize I need to step up the pace ever so slightly with our Christmas To Do List… and while I thought I was starting this project way too soon suddenly it is almost a month until Christmas and a whole lot sooner till the end of November [...]
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Se7en Chores and Life Skills We Do…
August 28th, 2009 · 10 Comments
For the last couple of weeks I have been posting on chores. It began with what seemed like an idle question and grew into a couple of posts. Here they are:
Se7en Things I Would Like My Kids to Learn From Doing Chores…
Se7en Motivations to get Kids to Do Their Chores: What Works and What Doesn’t…
And [...]
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7 Motivations to get Kids to Do Their Chores: What Works and What Doesn’t.
August 20th, 2009 · 12 Comments
For someone who didn’t think they had a lot to say about chores and could never raise the energy to even think of a chore chart, turns out I have quite a lot to say, after all. Last week I wrote a post: Se7en Things I Would Like My Kids to Learn From Doing Chores… [...]
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How to Discipline Se7en in Se7en Steps…
July 29th, 2009 · 21 Comments
I know I always say: “Ask whatever you like and I will answer it…” And ask you do!!! Socialization (for home schoolers) and discipline are the two topics my readers ask me at least weekly and the two questions I never really answer! So I thought while we are having two weeks off school I [...]
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