Since my oldest was a baby, I've often thought about the neural pathways developing in the brains of small children. Research tells us that 90% of the brain, including neural pathways, are formed by the age of 5 and 80% of that happens before they even turn 3! I like to explain neural pathways like this. Your brain is like a closet. Inside the closet you have room to hang your clothes Continue Reading >>
Free Printable Harvest Pumpkin Coloring Page for Fall
We love to celebrate the gifts God gives us at harvest, and pumpkins are definitely one of His gifts! This pumpkin coloring page is perfect for your harvest celebration and your Thanksgiving celebration. It's beautiful, fun to color, and fun to laminate and hang in the window too!The pumpkin coloring page below looks amazing colored with markers, crayons, or colored pencils. It can be Continue Reading >>
Healthy Eating: 4 Ways to get your Kids on Board
Eating can actually be healthy and fun at the same time, but try telling a child this truth and you are likely to get some push back. In fact, when we wrote Transitioning Your Family to More Healthy Nutrition, we got some push back ourselves. "That's all well and good, but what if our kids just aren't buying it?" With easy access to fast foods and other tasty cholesterol-rich snack items, Continue Reading >>
Worried? Time for Prayer – Free Printables to Encourage Moms
Have you been in the midst of planning and evaluating for a new year of homeschooling? Or perhaps facing a time of uncertainty and change in your life? Perhaps your family is going through transition, or a child is going through a difficult time. Life changes and seasons come and go. Sometimes it can be easy to slip into worrying, or to fall back into patterns of struggle and Continue Reading >>
Do You Want to Learn to Love Them Through Another Layer?
It happens again. That problem with yourself or someone else that you thought had been talked though, worked out, or settled. Your child seems to have the same issues day after day. You have to stop—again—to deal with what seems to be the same situation. You thought you had forgiven, yet the hurt feelings rise up again. You thought you had deserted that sin, yet you find yourself being Continue Reading >>
10 Quick Tips for More Complete Nutrition
We're pretty busy people aren't we Mom? I feel like I alternate between short-order cook, chauffeur, housekeeper, and teacher at a pretty constant pace. Life is hectic. Learning about complete nutrition takes time, and time is something moms don't have a lot of. And it's important. In Transitioning Your Family to More Healthy Nutrition - I talked about how to make the transition and where to Continue Reading >>
