Spring, One of My Four Favorite Seasons!

Spring is one of my four favorite seasons! Honestly, I enjoy all of the seasons, but by the end of one season, I’m ready for another. This year’s weather has been a roller coaster ride, and we have bounced between cold weather and warm weather for the last month. I’m hoping this warm weather is here to stay for a while.

Spring feels like such a time of renewal and new life. The birds are out singing, the flowers are blooming, the bees are buzzing, and life seems to hold so much hope and promise. I can’t forget my favorite part of spring, strawberries! We just had our first bucket of fresh strawberries for the season last week and they were so good!

Spring Fever Homeschool Solutions

One part of spring that could be viewed as a negative is ‘spring fever.’ The children, and if most of us are honest, the parents are ready to be outside. Sitting inside and doing schoolwork can seem arduous on the first pretty days after winter. To balance that natural desire to be outside enjoying the weather with our need to complete our schoolwork we take school outside.

Sometimes, like today, we literally take our schoolwork outside. Math seems a bit less tedious when there is grass under your feet and sun on your face. The children either take a table cloth to lay on, sit at the picnic table, or grab a folding chair and take their work outside. To help us stay organized when we do school outside, we keep book bags where they can store their materials.

Rainy Spring Day Homeschool Activities

When it is time to come in or on rainy days, we can do schoolwork related to spring inside. This can be completing on of the fun Spring Chalk Pastel Lessons, doing a study on birds, flowers, or plants, or even reading books about Spring. We have started going through the spring chalk pastel art course and are really enjoying it.

It is such a fun and easy way to incorporate art into our nature study this month. A couple of good book options are Eric Carle’s The Tiny Seed or the one we want to read this year, The Penderwicks in Spring. We have read the first book in this series and really enjoyed it.

Other times, I use various parts of the season to create natural learning opportunities. It is the perfect time of year to learn about plants and gardening. You can study how to grow them, pollination, and nutrition by actually planting a garden, harvesting your crop, and my favorite part, eating what you grew.

If you cannot plant a garden where you live, you can plant a few windowsill plants or visit a local farm. In addition to gardening, we love to raise baby chicks to become laying hens which provide eggs for our family and some of our friends.

Even if you can’t raise chickens, it is a good time of year to visit your local lawn and garden or feed store and let the children see the baby chicks. You can also purchase simple kits to raise and release butterflies or lady bugs that let children see the life cycles up close. These are nice because it gives you the live animals and hands on experience without the long term commitment of animals like chicks.

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Spring Bird Study

Spring is also an excellent time to study birds. You can get a field guide, like this Peterson’s First Guide to Birds to help you identify the various birds you see near your home. This is one of my favorite bird guides because it is very simple and easy to use. Some other guides are more thorough but can be overwhelming to children (and parents that are new to bird watching).

If you want to entice more birds to your yard or make it a bit easier to study them you can put up a bird feeder. This can be a homemade one or something like this inexpensive bird feeder that attaches to your windows.

I’ve talked about Our Hiking Adventures before, and spring time is a great time to hike. This is a great way to see different plants and animals while getting a bit of exercise. There are other Peterson’s First Guides like the bird one above that can be a great way to learn more about what you are seeing as you hike.

If you have small children, they may enjoy just walking and looking for various colors or shapes. Whether you go to a local park or simply ‘hike’ though a nearby field or forest it is a great chance to get outside and enjoy spring.

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Spring Fun

Of course, Spring is not only about school. There are so many fun things to do in the spring. You can go to a local farm and pick strawberries or visit your local farmers market to pick out yummy spring vegetables.

My children enjoy picking (and eating) strawberries, and it seems they eat more than they put in the baskets some years. Our strawberry-farming friends even joke about weighing the little ones before and after picking. This is a great way to get children excited about eating healthy foods and provide an understanding about where food comes from.

It is a wonderful time to break out the sidewalk chalk and the bubbles and just enjoy being outside. Kites are also a big hit at our house; from little simple ones, they make themselves to larger ones that need a little help and guidance. They are a fun way to spend a spring afternoon.

In addition to these ideas, I’ve added a fun spring bucket list to the free resource library with lots of fun ideas for spring!

Spring Ideas and Resources

When you sign up for our free resource library, you will get a link and password to the library; we are adding to the library each month with new items. You will also get a bi-weekly newsletter email to keep you up to date on what we have going on.

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World War II and the Korean War

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As I sat down to find resources and determine how we would study these wars I found so much on World War II that I could not include it all. World War II had a profound effect on the United States. While we focus on the United States and American history we will certainly read and cover things that were happening in Europe and the Pacific because it is all so closely related. I have included a good overview of the history of that time with the resource list that is posted in our free resource library.

We are going to start our study of World War II talking about how things changed here in the United States. We are going to plan and plant a Victory Garden, use ration books, and create some dishes that would have been popular during rationing, fortunately not German sawdust bread. I have found several great resources on Victory Gardens and I’ll share those next week along with our plans and progress. If you are wanting to get started with a garden you can visit your local farm and garden store or check out this seed kit or this organic kit that you can order online. If you do not live in an area where you can grow a full garden, something like this self-watering tomato plant that grows in a jar or even these edible flowers are a great way for your kids to still get an understanding in a hands-on way. You could also complete a lapbooking/ notebooking project focused on life on the homefront.

Then we are going to study the war itself, the causes, the battles, and the aftermath over the course of the next two weeks. We have The Usborne Introduction to the Second World War book to help guide us through that process. It is a great book with lots of solid information and pictures to help them understand. I am also considering this great file folder game from Home School in the Woods. We will also listen to The Hiding Place or C.S. Lewis at War by Focus on the Family, both if time allows. We will finish up our month with a study of the Korean War. There are not as many readily available resources for children studying the Korean War but we found several good websites that will help us facilitate discussions about the Korean War.

We are looking forward to two field trips this month in our study of World War II. We hope to go visit the USS North Carolina Battleship as well as the North Carolina Museum of History. Both of these are places we have been before but it has been several years since we had the opportunity to visit the Battleship.

When you sign up for our free resource library you will get a link and password to the library, we are adding to the library each month with new items. You will also get a bi-weekly newsletter email to keep you up to date on what we have going on.

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Fit2B Girls Ecourse and Fitness

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I want to take just a few minutes and talk about Fit2B. As you may know if you read my post about My Tummy Team Experience and a Sale!, I have had issues with core strength and had to do some physical therapy to strengthen my core and heal a diastasis.

Through that I found that many traditional exercises can be harmful to your core muscles and make the diastasis recti worse. However, Fit2B offers online fitness courses (both monthly subscriptions and one time purchases) that are specifically designed to be tummy safe.

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They have some great programs that are easy for a busy mom to do from the comfort of your own home and they are well done and modest enough that I’m comfortable watching them in front of my children. For only $14.99 a month you can have access to great safe fitness programs to help you get healthy or stay healthy. I believe that we serve our families best when we do what we can to be healthy and strong.

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Another program that they offer that we are enjoying is the Fit2B Girls Course. This is a video course that I am working through with my ten year old daughter. It has components on modesty, fashion, core strength, female anatomy, periods, eating healthy, fitness, and more. Each portion is set up so that you can cover the topics in any order and wait on any you do not think your daughter is ready for.

For example, we did the Fashion module but skipped the part about make-up because she is not yet at an age where we are considering make-up. The ones we have covered so far were well done and a great way to help teach my daughter and start some conversations. This could easily be a health course for your daughter or just something you work through together.

Another key fact to note is that it does not cover physical intimacy. This course is focused on, “holistic, non-sexual body education that empowers her to respect her body and keep it healthy.”

I hope that this resource blesses some of you that are looking for ways to incorporate safe fitness into your busy day. I’d love to hear in the comments about your favorite fitness programs and how you continue to stay healthy and strong.

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Carole P. Roman Book Review

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Books, Books, Books! We love books in this house, chapter books, picture books, poetry books, history books, fun fictional books, character building books, we keep a large library of books available for everyone to read. There are books in almost every room of our house. This month we had the opportunity to review some children’s books by Carole P. Roman. We were blessed to receive three books from the Carole P Roman books and collections. She has several different collections but ours came from her If You Were Me and Lived in… history series. The three titles that we received were, If You Were Me And Lived In…Tthe American West, If You Were Me and Lived in… Ancient China, and If You Were Me and Lived in… The Ancient Mali Empire.

We started our exploration of these books with a family read aloud. I chose to read If You Were Me And Lived In…Tthe American West for our family read aloud because it was a subject we had recently studies in history. All three children really enjoyed it. The pictures kept the attention of the three year old and the older children enjoyed the story. There were most impressed that the sister in the story had to collect buffalo poop.

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I also wanted to get a feel for how the children would do with the books reading them on their own. Each week they read a book (sometimes they choose and sometimes I assign), complete a journal entry about that book and then conference with me. I assigned the ten and eleven year olds one of the books and had them follow that process. These books are shorter than the books my eleven year old normally reads so it only took him about 20-30 minutes to read the entire book, If You Were Me and Lived in… The Ancient Mali Empire. While this was not a book that challenged his reading abilities, he enjoyed reading it and learned quite a bit about the Ancient Mali Empire. He thought that the books were, “good but not long enough”. He found the fact that girls in Ancient Mali were married very young to be one of the most interesting facts that he learned from this book. He went around telling everyone in the family about it that day.

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My daughter who is not as fond of long chapter books as my son was delighted to find out that she was getting to read a shorter book that week. She read If You Were Me and Lived in… Ancient China and really enjoyed the book. She was somewhat familiar with Ancient China from our history studies but still learned plenty of new information. She thought that the books were “good with lots of facts and only a little bit of story. ” She learned that parents would have chosen spouses for their daughters and found that very strange. She was also interested in how important ancestors were to the Chinese people.

I liked how she took historical facts and weaved them into a story like presentation. This style of living book seems to keep my children’s attention as well as helping them remember the facts that they are learning. I also really liked how she included a glossary at the back of the book to help them better understand any new vocabulary. We really enjoyed the Carole P. Roman books and collections and highly suggest that you check them out. I am hoping to add more of the ancient history ones, such as If You Were Me and Lived in…. Ancient Greece, to our collection before next fall when we will be studying ancient history. There are many more books that other Crew members reviewed so click the link below to check out some other reviews.

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History Updates: World War I

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We have been trying to get back into our routine since having baby Joseph. The older children are doing a great job getting their contract work and this week I managed to get most of the other work done with them that I had planned. We were focusing on World War I and used this online video from North Carolina History Museum. The video focuses on North Carolinians in World War I but is applicable to anyone studying World War I. One of the big focuses of the video is trench warfare, so to help me assess how much the children learned I had them complete the notebooking page on World War I trench warfare from Notebookingpages.com. They have so many different options, just on World War I they have over 50 pages.

Next week we are going to talk about the ‘Roaring 20s’ and I’m using the People in the 1920s coloring book for my daughter from this History by the Decade set. We may also watch this YouTube video, 1920-1929: Boom to Bust. Please note that the video does briefly describe lynching so you may want to preview it before showing it to younger children. We will be doing a study on Duke Ellington and other jazz artists. This collection is free with prime, Duke Ellington and More.

My son is researching World War I rations and finding that much has changed since the Civil War. He will be preparing us a meal to resemble those rations, stay tuned next week for pictures of that. He also chose to learn about and create a PowerPoint presentation on the Presidents from this time period for his monthly project. He will be presenting that to us next week. Elizabeth is working on her Freedom’s Heroes Badge for American Heritage Girls. This badge is not directly tied to World War I but focuses on our military and military history.

For reading they are going to have several choices including Kit Kittredge (we may also watch the movie). Another good option is The Great Depression (the American Adventure Series). We also have this biography about Babe Ruth that would be interesting for any sports fans.

All in all we enjoyed this week’s lessons and are looking forward to a busy week next week wrapping up this section by focusing on the Roaring 20s and the Great Depression. Also, don’t forget to make a Lego project related to history and send us a picture to go in this month’s Lego Challenge. Let us know what you are doing in history in the comments!

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The Mistakes I Made….

I think I could write a book about various mistakes I’ve made along this homeschool journey but I’ll focus on a few that I think may be fairly common and hopefully either help keep someone else from that same mistake or at least make you realize you are not alone.

My background is that of a public school student, teacher, and principal. So when I started homeschooling, I tended to fall back on what I knew. I found a curriculum that while Christian was in a very traditional style, I set up a classroom for us to work in, and I set up a daily schedule that looked much like the schedule I would have had in my classroom.

Our schoolroom before we finished setting it up!

That scenario might have worked well for some other family, but it was not a good fit for our family. We still have the room (though we don’t always use it) as it did work well for us to have a place to keep all of our homeschool things and to get away from everything else when we needed to focus on school. I learned that school could happen in that room but it could also happen in our kitchen, outside, or even in our van. We have however, greatly changed both curriculum and scheduling techniques.

We went from a traditional curriculum to using a different company for almost every subject. Some children do well with traditional curriculum but for us it was not the right solution. We used a variety of curriculum, focusing on hands on lessons and programs that worked well across multiple ages. The children started to enjoy our ‘school time’ more and it was much easier for me to teach most subjects together and only have to do things like reading with each child individually.

When we first started I blocked out my schedule to cover each subject five days a week during a certain time. For example, 9:00-9:30 reading, 9:30-9:45 spelling, etc. I found this was very frustrating for my children, sometimes we had to stop in the middle of a lesson, and sometimes they were done ahead of time. After a few weeks, I realized that I had the freedom to simply decide what we needed to cover that day and then work through it. We could move from one subject to another in natural progression. If my son drug his feet doing his math work (I’m sure that only happens at my house), instead of not finishing that day he knew he would have less play time that afternoon.

In addition to changing our daily schedule, at the end of our first year I realized that I needed to make a change in our weekly schedule. That change made such a huge difference for my planning and implementation. That first year I had planned out five days a week but it seemed like almost every week there were great field trip opportunities that I found out about and wanted the children to participate in: a trip to the local science center, a tour of the fire department, homeschool day at the local aquarium, etc. These trips were valuable learning experiences but because of how I had planned they made me feel chronically ‘behind schedule’. That second year I planned out our work over four days each week instead of five. This made all of the difference for us. It meant there was a day open for field trips or other appointments. If by chance we have a week where we do not have a field trip or appointment, the children have a day to enjoy playing Legos, working on projects, or other activities and I can get caught up on some household chores.

I’m so glad that I learned from those mistakes and found curricula that work well for my children and a schedule that allows us to fit in a variety of fun field trips and extra curricular activities. I hope that this helps someone not make those same mistakes. I’d love to have you share in the comments about what mistakes you made when you first started homeschooling.

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Zirrly Super Beads: A Low Mess, Low Stress Craft Review!

A fun craft that my ten year old can do independently and the three year old can do with a little help from the ten year old that also doesn’t leave my house full of glitter or paint? Sign me up! I recently had the opportunity to review Zirrly Super Beads and I was impressed. This was my first experience with Zirrly and I discovered that they have lots of different craft and art products. They came at a great time because we had just had our fourth child and I needed a few activities to keep the older children busy while I was focused on the baby. We have done other bead kits that required ironing but these attach with only water. We received the Super Beads Bird Set.

I had my ten year old daughter try it out first. I read over the directions with her but she was able to complete the first project without any additional assistance from me. Once she had gotten the hang of it with that first set, I had her help her three (almost four) year old brother with the second bird. He needed help getting it set up and staying on task but he was able to do most of the work himself. It was a great way for him to work on his fine motor skills and have fun with his sister. They completed the third bird in the kit together as well.

The process is very simple, you put your template under the plastic grid that is sent with the kit and then place the beads on top based on the colored template. Once the beads are in place you mist them with water, using the spray bottle included in the kit. Wait at least an hour and then you can carefully remove your object from the board and you have your finished product. The instructions said that if it broke you could fix it by placing it back and respraying it. My daughter wanted to be sure that was true, so she took the extra beads and made a random shape. She let it dry, removed it and promptly broke it apart. She then placed it back and resprayed it. Just as they had stated it went back together with no problems.

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One tip we found to keep things together and make it a little easier was to put the beads you are working with into a small bowl or muffin tin. This kept them from rolling onto the floor and made it easier for little fingers to grasp them.

The beads are small so I would not recommend trying to use it with a small child that still puts things in their mouths, but otherwise it is a great project for many ages. It is an independent project for most children that can read the instructions and a great family project for preschoolers. In addition to the Super Beads Bird Set they have several other sets including a 3D Jungle Animals set and a 3D Car and Truck Set. Don’t forget to click below to check out all of the other reviews of the various sets.

Get Your Kicks on Route 66: A Home School in the Woods Review

I had heard so many wonderful things about the Home School in the Woods products but we had not tried any of her games. When I was offered the chance to review one of her Á La Carte products, the Get Your Kicks on Route 66 file folder game, which covered the Industrial Revolution, World War I, and the Great Depression I was very excited. If you are following along on our Journey Through History you know those are the topics we covered in February and March.

The game is a printable PDF that is very easy to assemble. One of the things that impressed me as I was looking over the PDF was that she had the pages set up so that the ones that needed to be front and back could easily be printed that way in a printer that does double sided pages. This meant I only had to load my cardstock and press print, instead of making sure everything was lined up and printing one side and then putting the paper back in to print the other side. All in all, I had the game printed, colored, and set up in only about 15 minutes.

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The first time we played the game we used it during our evening family time. My children absolutely loved it and my history buff husband enjoyed it as well. It was neat to see what they remembered from what we had already covered and get a chance to talk about a few things that we had not already covered as the questions came up. Even the three year old enjoyed helping them move their markers across the board. I felt that the questions were interesting and appropriate. The children have played multiple times since that first night, including with their grandmother when she came to visit. We also used the question cards one night without the board, just as a trivia game. Our entire family really enjoyed this game and I am hoping to purchase some of her similar games for other time periods to incorporate into our history lessons.

In addition to the history board game, my daughter had the chance to try her hand at quilling. Quilling is a colonial paper craft and our family loves to help out a local colonial era historic site. She may be able to use this new skill and show others about this craft as she volunteers as a historic interpreter. It seems like a great way to engage children in history. My daughter really enjoyed this project, The Art of Quilling, and I love that using those instructions she can repeat the project using other colors to make more flowers and projects. Hers did not turn out quite as uniform as the sample but it was adorable and I thought a great job for the first try. One trick that she found very helpful was to use the paper cutter she has for scrapbooking to cut the paper strips. This helped her keep them even.

There were so many great Á La Carte options that I had a hard time narrowing it down to just the two that we reviewed. We are looking at possibly purchasing a few more to tie into our US History studies this year. The WWII: Military Weaponry Notebook Project looks like it would be a huge hit with my son. If you have a child that loves to write or you want to incorporate writing into your history program there are lots of great newspaper projects, like this American Beginnings Newspaper Collection.

I truly can not say enough good things about these projects. They were inexpensive, easy to use, educational, and lots of fun for the whole family. We enjoy making ‘school’ and learning a family experience and so these were a perfect fit for us. There are many more reviews of other Home School in the Woods Á La Carte options so make sure to click on the link below and check out all of the crew reviews!

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Homestead Homeschool: Our 4-H Goat

It is time for our monthly Homestead Homeschool post and this time I’ve interviewed my 10 year old daughter, Elizabeth. She is sharing today about the goat that she is raising for our 4-H livestock show next month. She is learning so much about responsibility, animal care, business, and public speaking. She will show her goat in the same show that my son shows his pig which we talked about last month in, Homesteading Homeschool: Our 4H Pig. If this sounds interesting to you, I encourage you to contact your local 4-H agent. Even if you don’t have the land or space to raise an animal at your home there are often ways to keep the animal at a local farm and the child go there to care for the animal.

Tell me about your 4-H Goat Project.

“I am raising a goat to show in the 4H livestock show. I will have the goat for about two months. I am training the goat to be able to walk with me on a harness around the ring. ”

Tell me about your goat.

“My goat’s name is Cream because it looks like ice cream with a chocolate head and a vanilla body. It has floppy ears and a short tail. She is really cute and soft. I enjoy playing with her.”

What do you have to do with your goat each day?

“I have to feed it twice each day. I take it out on a harness and walk it each day to practice for the show. I provide it with clean water each day as well as hay. I spend time playing with it and rubbing it each day. ”

What does showing your goat look like?

“I will get it cleaned up and ready for the show. Then I will have it in a choker collar and it will walk with me around the show ring. I will need to keep it between me and the judge. I will do this twice. The first time is for showmanship where they judge how well I work with the goat. The second time they will look for the meat and characteristics of the goat for the market class. ”

What do you hope to learn and accomplish this year?

“I want to learn more about goats and how to show a goat. I hope to get grand champion at the show. ”

What do you think other people should know about showing goats?

“It is fun and easier than some other animals. ”

This is her first year showing an animal and I’m looking forward to watching her grow and learn through this process. She is planning to sell her goat after the show for breeding. While goats can go to to market and slaughter they are not required to and she preferred not to go that route. Goats can be shown on a circuit at several shows, but we are just participating in the one local show at this time. The show is in April and I’ll post some pictures and results afterwards. If you have any questions about 4-H you can contact your local cooperative extension office or check out our post, But I don’t do animals…or using 4-H in our homeschool.

If you participate in 4-H, tell us your favorite part in the comments. Also, please feel free to ask questions about the goat or the show in the comments and I’ll do my best to answer them.

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Review: Taming the Lecture Bug and Getting Your Kids to Think

Do you feel like you spend too much time lecturing your children? Is what you are doing not working? I had the chance to review Taming the Lecture Bug and Getting Your Kids to Think by Joey and Carla Link of Parenting Made Practical. This is a video of their live presentation to parents and is recommended for parents of children ages 8-college. To give you some background, Joey Link has served as a youth and families minister as well as the director of a non-profit parenting ministry. Carla has a degree in social work. They have three adult children and four grandchildren. While certainly not a Hollywood quality production, I did find that this video was well done. It was clear, easy to follow, and had excellent sound quality.

Their first major point was that disobedience is a sin and should be dealt with as such. Instead of reminding, lecturing, etc parents should handle the disobedience from a sin standpoint. They also brought up making sure that children understood the direction and had been trained to carry out the task. One of their main strategies was that instead of lecturing our children we should be asking them questions. These questions help them to think about what they have done and what they should have done instead of us just lecturing them and telling them what they did wrong. This series of questioning helps them to begin thinking for themselves.

In our family, I am working to incorporate more questions to help the children begin to think for themselves and take more responsibility for their actions. Due to my son’s ADHD, we personally don’t feel like it is prudent to take away reminders but we do want to help him to take responsibility for his actions and think about the decisions that he is making. He needs frequent reminders from us as well as things like lists and visual cues to remember tasks and rules.

While this video was not a great fit for our family due to my son’s ADHD, I can see how for children who are choosing not to do what they are asked it could be a good fit. If you have children that are not following through on instructions because they know that there will be lots of reminders or because there are no consequences, this might be a good tool for your family.

In addition to the video presentation, Taming the Lecture Bug, the Link’s have a book by the same title. They also have a DVD titled, Navigating the Rapids of Parenting. This DVD is recommended for parents of children ages 2 to college. It talks about the different phases and stages of parenting and help your child through the bumpy times. Another product which I might need in a few years is, Dating, Courting & Choosing a Mate… What Works? (Video) (for parents of kids ages 9-college). While I do have children that are older than nine, I’m not quite ready to tackle those areas. These other products were reviewed by other Crew members so click on the link below to get more information and reviews of those products as well as additional reviews from families that used Taming the Lecture Bug.

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