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Make Teaching Kids to Clean Fun with These Tips

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Teaching kids to clean seems daunting. Where do you start? The task takes twice as long when we have to teach and do at the same time. It’s so much easier to just do it ourselves! But, the long-term benefits of teaching kids to clean outweigh the short-term challenges. If we want our teaching to be effective, though, we need to keep the following tips in mind. Make sure the chore is age-appropriate Keep it simple for little kids when teaching kids to clean When the 2-year-old colors on the wall and the 5-year-old spills milk all over the floor, …

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3 R’s of How to Motivate a Teenager

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Are you struggling with how to motivate a teenager in your life? Maybe he sleeps half the day or falls asleep in the middle of your co-op class. Maybe he doesn’t seem to put much effort into his science book and leaves a lot of blanks on the experiment sheet. Perhaps it’s not your son, but your daughter. Does she put off finishing that research paper you assigned weeks ago? Do you feel like you butt heads frequently about schoolwork? Trying to figure out how to motivate a teenager exhausts us. When the usual ways of how to motivate a …

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Don’t do this for Bible memory. Adjust your focus.

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I really hate giving kids prizes for Bible memory. I usually get puzzled looks from people when I say this. After all, prizes are a major motivator in school, at home, and in church. The argument for this usually goes like this, “Well, they won’t do it if we don’t give a prize.” Why wouldn’t they? If we don’t think kids will engage in Bible memory unless they are bribed with prizes, then what are we really saying about Bible memory? Are we saying that it’s unpleasant? Difficult? Not worth doing in it’s own right? If they will only do …

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Discover the surprising, secret health benefits of cod liver oil

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Historical knowledge of the health benefits of cod liver oil Have you heard about grandma’s secret remedy for winter? I did not personally experience this, but the story is that moms lined up their kids and forced a spoonful of cod liver oil into each grimacing mouth. Even though kids resisted, they knew they’d better take it. Mom knew best and she knew that cod liver oil kept her children healthy all winter long. And, people have known about the health benefits of cod liver oil for a very long time, at least since the 1700’s. Northern Europeans used it …

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Creative Ways to Get Cleaning Chores Done

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At this time of year, we often find ourselves frantically cleaning in order to get the house ready for visiting relatives. With small children, it feels like the filth multiplies and we can’t keep up. It certainly challenged me. I often felt like a maid on steroids. Keeping the house clean with four children under age 10 exhausted me. When my kids were small, I loved to go on field trips just so I wouldn’t have to clean up after them. I struggled with comparing my home to the pristine clean of some of my acquaintances. Never mind that their …

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