Are you empowering or holding your children back? Aim to raise independent learners for life and your homeschool. It will lessen the workload and stress. In this post, I share how our curriculum choice and planner system helped me in my quest to get our children be more independent. Read more…
Do I have to cook and clean to be a good mother? i.e. can’t I just farm them out?
Must I cook and clean to be considered a good mother? Can’t I just farm both out and concentrate on just the fun parts? But cooking and cleaning are basic life skills. As a loving mother wouldn’t you want to equip your children with these basic life skills? Read more…
What Legacy Are You Leaving Behind?
Indeed, what will our family, friends and colleagues say of us when we return to the Lord? We cannot dictate the legacy we leave behind, nor how history will remember us. But we can do our best to make sure that we have done our part. Read more…
Beauty and the Beast Brouhaha
So, unless you have been living under a rock, you would have read or heard about the “nice, exclusively gay moment” in Disney’s latest offering, Beauty and the Beast. So, are the conservatives really making a mountain out of a molehill? Or is there really an insidious plot to brainwash our children? How will YOU decide on this issue? Read more…
Too Overwhelmed to Shower
Feeling too overwhelmed hits us every now and then. I totally get it. It could be due to a sudden change in circumstances. It could be due to money woes or even hormonal changes. This post is specifically for new mothers and mothers with high need babies. How Overwhelmed Have You Been? Just this week, […] Read more…
Gatekeepers of our children’s health
Who decides what baby’s first food will be? Or what goes into your child’s lunch box for recess? And who decides what the family will eat on a daily basis? Mom, I believe it is you. Like it or not, mothers, we are the gatekeepers of our children’s health. What we decide to store in our pantries and cook in our kitchens affect their taste buds and habits. Even after they leave home. Read more…
Encouraging sibling closeness not rivalry
If there is only one lesson you get from this post, it will be this : don’t play favourites. It has long term repercussions. It may be difficult if you have one child that you constantly butt heads with. But you are the adult. BE the adult. Don’t play one child against another.
Sometimes we don’t think we are but to the children we are. (And yes, sometimes, they are being ridiculous). We just need to be aware of how certain actions and behaviours come across to the other children. Read more…
8 Reasons Why I Still Do Read Alouds to My Children
It is recommended that a child should be read to even after he can read. There are many benefits to it. In this post I list 8 ways read alouds have benefitted our family. Read more…
Devotions with the Children – Then and Now
In my last post, Struggling to spend quiet times with the Lord?, I shared my struggle on finding time to spend with the Lord and how these times have changed with each season of my life. Today, I tackle another popular question from mothers – how to get our children to do their devotions, preferably on their […] Read more…
Decluttering – a Regular Exercise to Contain the Mess
In just 12 days we will be celebrating Chinese New Year and stuffing our faces all over again, not you of course, just me! And in the lead up to it, cleaning companies and cleaning aunties are fully booked! The annual Spring Cleaning exercise is running at full throttle. Are you also caught up with […] Read more…