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5 Days of Water Play for Kids: Bring out the Baby Pool

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Summer is here! Let’s keep cool with some water play for kids! Today kicks off a five day series of fun water play ideas for children. Don’t forget about the youngest members of your family when you’re thinking about water play. Babies and toddlers can enjoy water play just as much as their older siblings. […]

Filed Under: Around the House, Family Life, The Homeschooling Life Tagged With: children, family, Family Life, homeschooling, parenting, preschool water play, summer fun!, water play for babies, water play for kids, water play for preschoolers

Encouraging Family Values with Movies and Television Shows

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Encourage strong family values with these movies and television shows -- discuss honesty, courage, perserverance, forgiveness and more!

One of my most massive challenges as a parent is to pass on our family’s values and belief system. I spend time in formal lessons about our faith, but I’m also careful to model the behavior I want my children to emulate. If I want my children to be kind to others, I need to […]

Filed Under: Around the House, Family Life Tagged With: #streamteam, children, family, parenting

Garden Toys and Tools for Kids

By Dianna Kennedy 1 Comment

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While you’re busy getting your garden together, your little ones are SURE to want to play along. This spring, I’m going to get our kids some garden tools and toys. These are perfect for getting them involved in our outside work, and go along wonderfully with a garden or spring unit study. Garden Toys for […]

Filed Under: Around the House, Family Life, The Homeschooling Life Tagged With: children, garden, garden toys for kids, Spring, toys

Tips for Surviving Road Trips with Kids

By Dianna Kennedy 7 Comments

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The following is a partnership with Febreze and SheSpeaks. All opinions are my own. With six small children at home, traveling by airplane is cost prohibitive for us. I’m dying for a vacation, so I’m hoping we’ll be loading up our beloved minivan and hitting the road to sunny Florida this fall. I’ll be honest. […]

Filed Under: Around the House, Family Life Tagged With: #febrezecar, family travel, parenting, parenting tips and tricks, traveling with children, traveling with kids

7 Books I’m Reading This Lenten Season

By Dianna Kennedy 11 Comments

I used to be a voracious reader. I still am, in some aspects. My nightstand threatens to buckle under the weight of books, but I have difficulty FINISHING any of them. In an effort to multitask, I’ve ended up spinning my wheels and gotten NOWHERE fast. This year, I want to finish what I’ve started. […]

Filed Under: Around the House, Being Catholic, Family Life Tagged With: Around the House, Being Catholic, books, books I love, motherhood, reading, top ten tuesday

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