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

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 Personal Calendars

Do you keep a personal or family calendar? If you're like me, you have several going at once. Here is a tool to personalize, customize and design your calendars. Make coloring page calendars with animal, Bible, holiday, fantasy and cartoon character calendars. The calendar creator tool is free to use and customize. Make personalized free printable calendars for everyone this holiday season. Print 2013 calendars in color for older family members and make color your own calendars for children. You might also print all the calendars in black and white and ask children to color images and give colored calendars as gifts. This makes a great Advent service project or countdown to Christmas activity. Read more

How I Keep My Work-at-Home Job from Consuming Me

 Work-at-home jobs aren't always easy to manage. Since there's no official start or end to the work day, it's easy to overdo it. From seven years working at home, here's how I avoid that overwork tendency and balance my nebulous schedule. How I Keep My Work-at-Home Job from Consuming Me

Montessori mom: At-home preschool practical life learning center

I'm a certified special needs teacher and a former home school parent. I also taught in a Montessori school. Both Montessori and special education follow a learning center-based classroom model. Learning centers (also called areas or stations), engage children in hands-on, multi-sensory tasks. Each center focuses on different activities: reading, math, science, building, gross motor, art, dramatic play and practical life. When I taught our kids at home, I brought the learning center concept into our home. If you've got preschool kids or are a home school parent, why not try the learning center approach? Here's how this Montessori mom set up a practical life learning area. Montessori mom: At-home preschool practical life learning center

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

2Houses co-parenting website makes single parenting easier

Gill Ruidant is a co-parent. He shares custody of a son with his former spouse. To smooth the bumps of parenting between two families, Ruidant created an organizational website, based in Belgium, called 2houses. Although I'm not a single parent, Ruidant allowed me to set up an account to see how the site worked. He contacted me to say that I was one of the first to test-drive it. I interviewed Ruidant, asking about what goes into the creation of an organizational website (and soon to be cellphone app) how it can help co-parents. Here's what he had to say. Read more at 2Houses co-parenting website creator makes single parenting easier - Yahoo! Shine

Free Calendars--free printable personal planner, online organizer

Speaking from several decades of teaching, one of the most challenging concepts for students to master is calendar skills. Calendar skills are vital skills for personal organization and time management. Here are free printable calendar, free online organizer and personal planner tools and lesson plans to use them. Use these to organize your family life, too.  Click here...

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...

Coping Skills for Burnout and Stress Relievers

Simple Stress Reducers
Use these easy stress reducers any time you need to decompress!
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Mental Health Life Strategies for Parents, WAHM, SAHM

5 Mental Health Life Strategies that Really Work
What are "life strategies"? Volumes have been written on life strategies. Life strategies are mentally healthy coping and survival skills for this challenge we call "life." The majority of wisdom can be distilled into these five life strategies. Perfect for WAHM work at home moms and SAHM stay at home moms
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Free Printable Back-to-School Organizers, Planners, Schedules, Chore and Homework Charts

Free Printable Back-to-School Organizers, Planners and Craft Activities
'Back-to-School' has become a catch phrase in marketing. 'Back-to-school' sales, shopping guides and promotions abound. We all know where we can go to spend money, but how about some money savers? Free printable back-to-school activities.
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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...

Tips for Writers and WAHM to Overcome Writer's Block

Free Tips to Overcome Writer's Block
Writer's block; the laryngitis of writers. If you write frequently, you're bound to suffer a bout of writer's block. Here are some easy remedies to get your block unblocked.
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Free Tax Preparation Services for WAHM and Online Writers

Free Online Tax Preparation and E-File Services
If you make under $56,000 per year, you can prepare your federal taxes and e-file free online. You may also be able to file state taxes free as well. Read on...
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