The New Adventure
February 26, 2012 by 2 Comments
For those of you who weren't in attendance at Central Baptist Church this morning to hear about our family's newest adventure, HERE is my husband's post telling a little bit about it.
More news to come.
Have questions of ANY kind, ask away!!! I'd LOVE to talk to you about it. I've been waiting for months to talk ;o)
5 minute Friday: grit
February 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Grit
5 minutes to write about the grit in my life. What a relief to not me allowed to edit, over-think, etc.
My brain is full of grit. These past ~6 months feel like they've been non-stop. My heart aches with stress just attempting to think back over them.
- Parties
- Deaths
- Holidays
- More parties
- Planning
- Patients in not being allowed to plan yet
- Decision
- Laughter
- Joy
- Worry
- Research
- Decorating
- Redecoration
- Launching
- Mothering
- Sickness
- New routines
- Transition
- Meal planing
- Cleaning...lack of cleaning
- Laundry piled high- upwards of 6 loads at a time in the floor- sorting
- New teeth
- Odd weather
- Park dates
- Dinner guest
- Anticipation of our Newest Adventure on the horizon
Grit my teeth and push through.
Stop
Our “Fake Economy”
February 20, 2012 by 2 Comments
We created our own "fake economy", as my hubs likes to call it.
My 3.5 year old goes through phases of responding then not responding to different methods of discipline (ie. spankings, time outs, grounding, etc) and/or rewards (stickers, extra fun snack, candy, etc).
The "fake economy" works like this:
Every time Maggie does her "morning routine" chart all by herself (no begged assistance from mom and dad who are juggling the younger babes) she 'earns' a bread tie. Bread tie? Yep, straight got this from a psych. teacher in college. I've been collecting the for years.
She can also "earn" a bread tie by
- Doing her chart without being asked
- Using the potty with DRY/CLEAN panties
- Listening 1st time (at parents discretion something super important)
- Staying in her bed at nap and night-time
She places them in her cupcake shaped piggy bank right now. This afternoon she 'earned' a special craft. We'll be making 3 new piggy banks!
- One for GOD
- One for SAVING
- One for SPENDING
This will be a great way to begin teaching her about finances! My hubs and I have created a list of things she can "buy" with her bread ties. This list will be bought with those ties in the Spending or Saving bank. On Sundays we will count out her ties and each one will be worth a penny. She'll then give the pennies we give her (in exchange for her ties) to our church offering. It's not quite the 10% {tithe} but it will begin to teach her that God has ask us to give back a portion of what He given us. I pray it will also teach her to be generous and that the 10% is a minimal suggestion of what we can give back.
Do you have any good ideas for teaching your child about handling finances? How about a "fake economy" of your own? PLEASE SHARE in the comments below!
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