Category: Summertime
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Step 2: Summer Chores
I find that summertime is a great time to help my kids learn new chores and add them to their regular chore list. During the school year, they’re often super busy with homework, sports, music lessons, etc., and they push back pretty hard when I want them to start emptying the dishwasher in the mornings, […]
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Step 1: Summer Bucket Lists
Now that summer is here, my kids’ minds are swirling with ideas about all the fun things we’re going to do. I’ve learned that it’s important to capture all those plans and all that excitement early on in the summer and write it all down. With only 10 weeks off of school, some of which are filled […]
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Summer Fun
As I look forwards to summer with the kids, I feel a little overwhelmed wondering how I’m going to fill all those days. Although we love to keep it casual and unscheduled, sometimes a little structure can be helpful. Here’s a chart I created to help us think of things to do this summer. With […]
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Week 31: Learning Life Skills with School Supply Shopping
Week 31: Learning Life Skills with School Supply Shopping I’ve always loved school supply shopping – even as a kid. I love it in a whole different way as an adult :). There is something wonderful in all the potential stored up in those fresh crayons and clean sheets of paper. I always take my kids […]
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Week 22: Summer Reading List
Week 22: Summer Reading List Our local library has a wonderful summer reading program and my kids have participated for many years. It’s great motivation to get the kids to keep reading over the summer. Now that they’re older, though, (9 and 12) the library’s summer reading program and its prizes aren’t as motivational. I also have […]
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Week 19: Learning Balance with a Summer Schedule
Week 19: Learning Balance with a Summer Schedule I saw this idea on Pinterest recently, and it stuck with me. I love summer with the kids, and we do tons of fun things, but I find that at times I really crave the routine of the school year. And I always worry that my kids are spending […]
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School Supply Shopping
Today I decided to try out the new School Supplies Shopping List with my 7-year-old. We started by reviewing the list we got from school, and figuring out what things we already had, and what things we needed to buy. He likes to use The Trip Clip website, so he created the list himself: […]
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