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Showing posts with label children. Show all posts

Free Lesson Plans for Summer Enrichment

Are you a working parent looking for things to do with your children this summer well look no further because this online writer mom has a plethora of free activities for you click this link http://m.voices.yahoo.com/free-super-cheap-summer-enrichment-activities-for-12678224.html

Hands-On Book Craft Activities, Literature Games for Summer Reading Enrichment

Parents, are you worried about whether your kids will retain what they learned in school through three months of summer vacation?  Homeschoolers, need cheap, homemade language arts lesson plans? Special needs teachers, want interactive reading games? Work at home parents, maybe you just need activities to keep kids occupied so you can work. Whatever your need, I've got the answer. Here are hands-on reading activities and book based craft and literature games.  I've created these and give you permission to print (just don't sell them, please). Use these activities for preschool to high school. They're cheap to make, using recycled materials. Lessons are based on HOTS (Higher-Order Thinking Skills): analysis, application, synthesis and evaluation. Perfect summer reading enrichment. Hands-On Homemade Reading Crafts, Book Activities, Literature Games

Activities for Bored, Winterbound Kids: Crafts-travaganza Party

Winter is finally getting serious in our area. Kids are loving the big snow drifts! But below-zero wind chills force some parents to keep kids in the house. Schools cancel recess if it's too cold. Excess times indoors makes for restless, irritable children. Looking for cheap, indoor activities for bored, winterbound kids? How about a crafts-travaganza party?  Activities for Bored, Winterbound Kids: Crafts-travaganza Party

How to Work at Home with Sick Kids

Vacation's over; everyone's back to school; you can finally get caught up on work and wouldn't you know it--a child gets sick. Flu season 2012-2013 is shaping up nasty says ABC News, so if you've got kids, plan on them getting ill. How do you get anything done with sick kids? Let this multitasker mom of four and former homeschool parent help.  WAHM, Parenting Sick Kids 

Free Printable 2013 Calendars, Schedules, Organizers for Kids

One of the best ways to teach a child to be organized is to help them follow a daily calendar or schedule. Here are free printable 2013 calendars. There are monthly and weekly and year at-a-glance calendars, personal organizers and schedules. Many are coloring page calendars, too. Free printable coloring page calendars make great math and time lesson plans for elementary and special needs students. Keep preschoolers busy when older siblings aren't in school with free printable coloring page calendars. You might have kids color calendars and give as birthday or holiday gifts.  Free 2013 Coloring Page Calendars

Free Christmas Countdown Calendar Printables for Busy Parents

Looking for a cute Advent countdown to Christmas calendar? Here is a complete free printable advent countdown calendar activity featuring teddy bears labeled from 1-25. This Christmas countdown craft can be adapted in many ways for religious and secular advent calendars.  read more

Free Printable Chanukah Crafts for Kids (and busy Jewish Moms!)

Hanukkah or Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, begins at sundown Dec. 8, 2012. On the Hebrew calendar Hanukkah always falls on the 25th of Kislev on the Hebrew calendar. For busy Jewish parents, trying to juggle work, kids and Hanukkah preparation, life can get busy around the holiday. Here are free printable crafts and activities to keep kids productively (operative word) occupied! Assign children tasks of making decorations and cards. This keeps them happy and out of mischief (for awhile anyway!) read on

Helping middle school kids transition to high school

Transitioning from middle school to high school is a lot like starting kindergarten--there are similar woes and worries. Will I make friends? Will my old friends meet new people and ditch me? Do I look okay? Will I get lost? Where's my locker and how the heck do I get it open? Here are parenting tips to help middle school kids transition to high school. Helping high school kids with back-to-school jitters

Parents' back-to-school concerns: Should kids ride the bus or walk to school?

Nervous about kids going back to school? A big cause of back-to-school anxiety for parents is transportation. Should kids walk to school? Are school buses safe? I drive to school; how do I juggle schedules? Here are parenting tips on coordinating school transportation. WAHMs and work at home parents, here are tips to help you decide. Parents' back-to-school concerns: Should kids ride the bus or walk to school? 

For best parenting practices, nix frequent cellphone texts

During most of my early parenting, cellphones weren't so common and texting was virtually unheard of. Though I've had a mobile device for about 12 years, I still don't have a texting plan. In parenting, I can think of few good outcomes and lots of negative ones from frequent cellphone texting. I'm not referring to business cellphone use, but casual chat. Here's why texting and parenting don't mix. For best parenting practices, nix frequent cellphone texts

Teaching kids a healthy work ethic--start this summer

There's a misnomer among kids that summer break from school entitles one to three months of leisure. Not only is that unrealistic, it's unhealthy. All work and no play may make jack a dull boy, but all play and no work makes him self-indulgent and irritating. Summer is a great time to build a positive work ethic. In order to do, we need to dispel and rethink some erroneous assumptions about work.  Read more at Teaching kids a healthy work ethic

Teaching kids a healthy work ethic

There's a misnomer among kids that summer break from school entitles one to three months of leisure. Not only is that unrealistic, it's unhealthy. All work and no play may make jack a dull boy, but all play and no work makes him self-indulgent and irritating. Summer is a great time to build a positive work ethic. In order to do, we need to dispel and rethink some erroneous assumptions about work. Teaching kids a healthy work ethic

Free Printable Blank Checks for Money Math, Economics and Banking Practice

Money, banking and finances are some of the most practical math applications. Students learn to write checks, balance a check book and manage debit, savings and checking accounts. Here are free printable checks, check register, deposit and withdrawal slips. Links and websites listed below have free printable bank and check book activities to give students hands-on money math practice. Use these activities in consumer math classes, special education lesson plans, homeschool and math activities.  Free Printable Blank Checks for Money Math, Economics and Banking Practice 

Free Printable Math File Folder Games--Helps Working Parents Keep Kids Productively Busy

File folder games are a teacher's best friend in classroom resources. They work great for busy working parents, too. File folders games are great for parents of special needs students as they are hands-on, interactive resources. Here are free printable math activities that can be easily made into file folder games. You can print these games and glue the game board to a file folder. Cut out the pieces and laminate game board and pieces. Place game pieces in a Ziploc bag and attach bag to game file folder. The websites listed have free printable file folder games for number recognition, counting, skip counting, money math, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, math facts, fractions, decimals, story problems and other math concepts. Free Printable Math File Folder Games for All Grades

Free Printable Children's 2014 Calendars

Free Printable 2011 Coloring Page Calendars, Schedules, Organizers for Kids
One of the best ways to teach a child to be organized is to help them follow a daily calendar or schedule. Here are free printable 2014 and 2015 monthly and weekly calendars, personal organizers and schedules for kids. Many are coloring page calendars, too. Read more...

What's Your Art? Grand Rapids Organizes Entertainment Venue Feeds

What's Your Art GR- Local and Arts Calendar and Schedule
If you're an arts buff like me, your bulletin board is covered with events calendars. And your computer screen cluttered with RSS feeds from all the local venues. Would you like your local Grand Rapids events in one convenience location?
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Work at Home Mom Guilt Issues


WAHM Guilt Issues: Why Can't You Play with Us, Mommy?
If they ever issue an Oscar for Best Set of Guilt Issues, I'd win. Whether SAHM (stay at home mom), WAHM (work at home mom) and go to work mom, guilt is there. Do these words get you in the guilt bone: 'Mommy, why can't you play with me?' Read on.
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Tips for WAHM- Coping with Guilt

Guilt is a major plague for moms, WAHM, SAHMs we're all prone to it. When we try to balance, family, home, career, home business, writing career, we sometimes suffer. Here are some tips for survival from a veteran online writer, WAHM, SAHM and guilt addict. Read on...

10 Therapeutic Techniques to Heal Low Self Esteem - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com

10 Therapeutic Techniques to Heal Low Self Esteem We stay at home moms and work at home moms are subject to mommying guilt just as much as our working-mom counterparts. Here are tips to heal that low self esteem. 

WAHM: How Busy Moms Balance Work and Family: Handling Interruptions, Setting Boundaries

How WAHM Balance Family and Work- Handling Interruptions and Setting Boundaries
The internet is one of the fastest growing source of jobs for SAHM, Stay-at-home-moms and WAHM, Work- at- home moms. A WAHM faces similar issues balancing work and home. Let's look at the problem of setting boundaries with family.
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