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Lemonade Stands with a Twist

   When I was about eight years old I decided it would be fun to live in a travel trailer. Our family didn’t happen to own one, so I set about building one for myself. I dreamed…

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Too Wiggly to Read?

  Sometimes young children are just too full of energy to sit still and listen to a book. They’re like a basket full of puppies needing to wiggle, run and play. How will you ever instill a…

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What If?

       In a perfect world parenting would be easy. Unfortunately we don’t live in a perfect world and parenting is, in my opinion, the most complex job in the world. Add to that the fact there is…

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Never Too Early

   Here is the new daddy and baby Ethan. Ethan is about two weeks old in this picture, and he already has his own board book library. Lucky baby. Some may think reading to a two week…

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Can Your Children Wait?

When I was teaching I used to tell my husband that there was never a second grade boy who didn’t want to be first in line no matter where we were going. The drive to “be first”…

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