Category: Tweens
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3 Fun Ways To Encourage Your Child to Enjoy Creative Writing #ImaginewithFlint
A few days ago, I shared some tips on how to encourage your child to continue reading over the summer. Reading is a lifelong skill that all children need to maintain through out their lives, including after they graduate from high school or college. In the work place there are all sorts of documents that…
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Summer Reading Challenge And Free Book Log Printable
This summer I wanted to try something new with my kids. In the past, I have let my kids spend a ton of time watching television or playing video games. So before they were out of school, I picked up a summer reading schedule from our local library and planned on taking all three kids…
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Talking to Your Teenager About Abusive and Unhealthy Relationships
According to Loverespect.org, “nearly 1.5 million high school students have been a victim of physical abuse from dating every single year and 1 out of 10 students have been slapped, hit, or physically abused by their dating partner“. These statistics are alarming but there is something that you can do as a parent. If you…
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Getting Kids To Keep Their Room Clean And Tidy
Are you children responsible to keep his or her room clean? Does your child do a good job at keeping their room clean or does it look like a tornado hit their bedroom? My kids will clean up their bedroom and a few days later it is a mess again. It drives me crazy and…
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10 Family Friendly Activities to Play at the Park
Today kids are usually glued to the television screen or stuck indoors most of the time and don’t get a chance to play outside very often. I know that I am guilty of this and I do try to urge my kids to play outside in the backyard during the evenings. In fact, children should…
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Fun Ways to Get your Child Involved in the Spring Cleaning
If you haven’t start Spring cleaning, try these tips to get your kids involved in helping with the Spring Cleaning chore list. I know that most kids are more likely to help with the chores when they are having fun. Teaching them how to properly do the chores not only gets the done quickly but…
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7 Tips to Keep Your Kids Safe on Moving Day
Are you planning on moving soon? Today I wanted to share with you some tips that Anita Reid wrote to help make moving day successful and accident free. I have personally moved several times over the years and my kids always were eager to help on moving day. Of course, they were a bit older. I…
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6 Ways to Save Money On You Child’s Clothing
Children’s clothing can be rather expensive especially if you are shopping in boutiques or buying brand name clothing. I wanted to share with you some tips and suggestions so that you can learn how to save money on your children’s clothing. If you are currently pregnant, I highly suggest that you read this post and…
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Ways to Teach Your Kids to “Go Green”
Have you considered teaching your children new ways to “go green” and help save the world around them? The term going green simply means finding new ways to help the environment. What are you currently doing to show your children about “going green”? In our house, we…
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4 Ways To Encourage Kids To Clean Up After Themselves
Teaching your child how to clean up after themselves and good cleaning habits is often difficult to establish and follow unless you start teaching your child or children how to properly do the chores at an early age. However, older children are sometimes caught up in situations when they do not clean after themselves and…