Category: Parenting 5-12
Rhythms and reasons of allowances for kids
0 In order to provide experience and lessons around money, many parents, at some point, choose to give their children an allowance. If they dont have a planned allowance strategy when this time comes, its often Google.com to the rescue. As with most things, people have come up with good, better and best allowance systems….
What are age appropriate chores?
0 Choresare not always fun for adults or for kids but they are important for teaching kids responsibility. Young children will often get excited about helping their parents and older siblings because it makes them feel important so take advantage of this time when it is still a novelty and start with the basics. It…
Helping Children Tap into Their Creativity
0 There are countless books on creative projects for children that can be done at home. On a bulletin board near my desk is a still life of flowers in a vase that my daughter drew and gave me years ago. I keep it there because it is a beautiful drawing, was a gift from…
Raising a child with autism: one woman’s experience
1 Learning to live with the diagnosis and making every moment count Sarah Rasmussen is many things. She has many labels. Mother. Wife. Entrepreneur. Exercise Queen. Health Nut. Super Mom. Every day, the one that bounces around her brain like a 4-year old with a face full of neon blue icing from a birthday cake…