“Virtues education comes from the heart. Teachers too, must choose to learn about and develop their own virtues. We walk beside our students, listen to them, discern teachable moments in the classroom and share how we practice the virtues in our lives with truthfulness and humility.” – Dara Feldman, The Heart of Education p. 131 Parents… {read more}
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Tips for Organising Service Projects through Your Child’s School
School is a wonderful place to begin teaching kids about how they can use their time, resources, skills, and community to help others. I love it when teachers take the initiative to arrange service projects and integrate it into something the class is learning about, but sometimes they simply don’t have the time. We are… {read more}
Year of Travel: Getting Ready to Homeschool
As I am preparing for A Year of Family Travel, many people are asking: Are you going to homeschool? My answer is: Yes, we are! To anyone who knows me personally, this would not come as a surprise. I actually always planned to homeschool my children but, due to personal circumstances and the desire to try out our… {read more}
How to Teach Respect to Young Children
As with any virtue we are trying to help our kids develop, teaching respect all starts with how we practice the virtue in our own daily lives. Children are likely to copy what their parents do, so brainstorming ways to be a positive role model is a great place to start. Here are a few… {read more}
Dear Daughter: There is No One Right Answer
Dear Daughter, You are a few days shy of 7 months, and in full swing of trying new foods and mouthing everything you can get your hands on. You would think these two milestones are quite simple, but let me assure you they are not. Deciding what foods to give you, how often, how much, what… {read more}
Simple Living: Kid Stuff
My Simple Living Series shares tips for simplifying, categories of *stuff* with ideas for decluttering, and/or advice about living more intentionally. In this post, I’m sharing my personal list of essential kid stuff. I have decluttered many times since we had children, especially as we have moved three times (once to a new country)… but the process is never-ending. Gifts, party favours,… {read more}
One Thing Wednesday: Weekly Personal Growth Exercise
UPDATE: Read about ONE THING WEDENSDAY in 2016 in this post! You are invited! ONE THING WEDNESDAY starts tomorrow! What? ONE THING WEDNESDAY is a new Facebook series that will start 26 August 2015. I’m going to post one awesome link at the same time each week that can inspire parents to think and grow, sort of… {read more}
Gratitude Goodie Bags {Free Printable}
Our family has been inspired to do three special “kindness outings” by the #FordThinking challenge as part of Kidspot Voices 2015. After being given a Ford Kuga MKII to drive for six weeks plus fuel vouchers, we decided to use the opportunity as a chance to pay it forward to others around us. The first outing we made was giving a Kindness Plate, and… {read more}
