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An Awesome (and easy) Thanksgiving Tradition To Start With Your Family This Year

November 23, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

A friend of mine — Eileen from Little Acorn Learning — posted this picture of her Thanksgiving table last year: I thought those cards were such a nice idea. What a great way to encourage interaction and kindness around the Thanksgiving table! This year I really wanted to do something similar. So I made some templates […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: dinner, friend, grateful, gratitiude, Holiday, questions, teacher, thankful, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving traditions

Hello, Fwend.

April 14, 2015 by not your average mom 8 Comments

Number 5 (5 years old), Number 6 (4 years old), and Number 7 (3 years old) are in that stage of childhood where the ultimate burn-sizzle is “I’m not going to be your friend anymore.” As soon as one pisses the other one off, the auto reply button is pressed. Oh yeah! Well I’m not […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: dummy, friend, fwend, insults, kill them with kindness, Number 5, Number 7, responding to insults, teaching kids to respond to insults

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