Cleaning is always more fun when it is done together, and summer is still a fine time to get Spring cleaning done. Choose a major task in your house, and enlist your children’s help. Wash the windows, clean out a closet or an attic, wax the car or dig up a flower bed. Try to [...]
Giving my child a boxed mix to make was one of the best things I’ve ever done. The boys learned:
~Following directions.
~To measure.
~Self sufficiency.
~Kitchen safety.
~Creativity. Ever put Butterfingers in your brownies?
~To live through mistakes.
~The joy of [...]
Children don’t memorize poems much any more, and it’s a shame. There’s something about the rhythm and meter of words that is not only pleasing to the ear, but soothing to the brain. Poems are fun to recite, too. The other day, I began quoting “I Know an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly”, and [...]
I took Spanish in high school. And Latin. Then I took French in college. Think I’m smart?! Well, when I got out of college, I moved to Lebanon, where people speak a lot of French. It was very embarrassing when I couldn’t remember how to ask where the bathroom was. I hadn’t learned a thing! [...]
