It’s a busy week for us. Jack turned 9 yesterday. Victoria turned 14 today. Victoria has surgery tomorrow (she has a mass on her jaw that doctors need to investigate and remove). Alex turns 5 the next day (yes, 3 of our 5 kids have birthdays the same week!). The next day, we leave for…
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Do Something Brave Month!
We’re doing a family challenge for the month of February that I thought others might like to join in on. We’re designating it Do Something Brave Month, and challenging ourselves to each do 20 brave things to earn a family reward. What counts as brave? Anything outside your comfort zone that could lead to good…
100 Favorite Children’s Novels
The School Library Journal’s Fuse 8 blog conducted a survey recently of favorite children’s books and these are the top 100 (after being tampered with so that children’s votes were not always counted — see the edit note at the end). While I’m not a fan of the way the voting was done, I love…
Boredom Busters!
Nothing to do? Here’s a pile of free and easy ways to turn a lazy day fun… Make an obstacle course of couch cushions and stray objects in the living room. Play charades. Give kids a screwdriver and let them take apart broken phones and other gadgets. Alter a book. Challenge the kids to…