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When Kids Ask Questions

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I recently had the nice experience of my daughter’s six-year-old cousin asking me questions about her condition. He wanted to know if our new baby had to do the things that her sister does (like taking enzymes and wearing The Vest). When I told him she doesn’t, he wondered why. After all, it makes sense to him that if one sister has to do something than the other should too. So I got to explain what makes Maggie different from him and from her little sister too. I told him the very basic information about cystic fibrosis. All I had … Continue reading →

Ask Your Child Hard Questions Too

There are times when our children can throw us for a loop with their tough, complicated questions. Many of us realized our children were leaving the baby stages behind when they started asking us “why” and “how” for everything. The children are not the only ones who can ask the hard questions, however, and it is actually stimulating and good for our children if we ask them some challenging questions once in a while too… Instead of automatically explaining or teaching our children as we go along, asking them questions and encouraging them to come up with the answers is … Continue reading →

2006 in Review: Homeschooling Blog at a Glance

As a new homeschooling blogger at Families.com, I wanted to know everything that has been discussed to date. In response to my own curiosity, and in an effort to make perusing our articles easier for you, our readers, I have compiled all of the blogs for the year 2006. Deciding to Homeschool Why homeschool Am I qualified for this? Reasons that Homeschooling Works! My Most Important Advice for Homeschoolers. The Cost of Homeschooling Instead of standing up for their own kids, why not stand up for all kids? Disclaimer: I am hardly an expert in education. Did You Know? ‘Empirical … Continue reading →

Answering Questions: Change is Inevitable

I’ve talked about change here plenty of times and I’ve said that change is inevitable. We all change. We all make different decisions and do different things. But I saw a question posted to one of my blogs on Marriage and Religion that made me do some thinking. I suppose I could go and just answer the question in the comments, but I wanted to really focus my answer – so the question was: I need some good advice. My husband and I have both grown up in the same religion, and even married in it. Recently, he told me … Continue reading →

Mourdock Prematurely Responds to Supreme Court Ruling

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Sometime soon, the Supreme Court will reveal its decision regarding the Affordable Care Act. Richard Mourdock, who is running for Senate in Indiana, decided to go ahead and respond to that ruling – before the ruling was actually made. Most of us are waiting to see what the Supreme Court will decide about the Affordable Care Act. Will it decide that the entire thing stands? Will it pick out parts of it that we can keep, and exclude other portions? Will the Supreme Court decide that the entire Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional? No matter what is decided, one thing … Continue reading →

Who Would I Be?

This long holiday weekend I’ve been busy cleaning and decorating, which has given me lots of time to think. We all wonder when we get divorced if we are doing the right thing, if maybe we shouldn’t have stuck it out, at least for the kids. I can finally say that I did the right thing. My divorce was the best thing that has ever happened to me. As I look around my home, at my things, I can be proud that I worked to provide these things for my daughter. When I got divorced my ex husband got everything, … Continue reading →

Helping Your Child Deal With Divorce

Helping your child deal with your divorce when you are struggling to deal with it yourself is very hard. Children take everything so personally and because they are so young they really don’t understand that everyone around them is hurting as well. Taking the time, through your own pain, to help your children deal with everything will really help them grow up well adjusted, in spite of the divorce. The most important thing is to make sure your child knows this is not their fault. They need to know that absolutely nothing they’ve done or didn’t do contributed to the … Continue reading →

Practicing Conscious Spending

When you are always aware of what you are spending and how you are spending, you’ll save money every time. Whether you seem to always be heading out to the mall, or you can’t resist creating a wall of canned goods while extreme couponing, consider reviewing a checklist of questions that will reveal the real answers behind your shopping. The urge to shop can often be a coping mechanism. It gives us a lift in the day and may be an attempt to meet emotional needs. Sometimes we simply find ourselves shopping or adding extra things to our list without … Continue reading →

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before…

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All parents work hard at being a parent. It’s not easy to give up hours of sleep because your child needed you, and then head into work the next morning. It can be frustrating to have your child going through a “difficult stage”, no matter if that stage is due to age, personality, or just the result of a really bad day. When your child is in a public place, and behaving in ways that make people stop and stare, it can be completely embarrassing, for you, the parent. These are the moments when you are going to be the … Continue reading →

Genealogy Resolutions for 2011

Do genealogists make New Year’s resolutions? You bet they do. If you are a genealogist or aspiring genealogist who is wondering where their search for ancestors will take them in 2011, read on for four suggestions of things that you can do to keep your genealogical research moving along and, more importantly, keep it fun and interesting. Often, genealogists acquire a lot of papers and other “stuff” in the course of their research. It can be easy to let papers pile up and before you know it, all of your hard work is in a disorganized mess that, let’s face … Continue reading →