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Top 3 Ways to Make Thanksgiving more Meaningful this Year for your Children (and for yourself)
Let’s decrease our anxiety this fall Fall is a busy time and making time for another new routine can be virtually impossible, but these activities and suggestions will help make your fall season more meaningful, more peaceful, and will have…
Book club fun!
In keeping with the Oz theme on the blog…. it’s the movie’s 80th this year…and I’ve chosen this book to kick off our Book Club. Let’s get a virtual book club going! For now, I’ll keep it simple. Here’s the…
Lessons from Oz: Novels vs. Movie
Lessons from Oz: Novels vs. Movie As part of an ongoing series of Wizard of Oz related posts in honor of the movie’s 80th birthday this year (on August 25th, 2019) to be exact, here are the top three things that…
Lessons from Oz: Team-work
This is a first installment in a series of lessons that The Wizard of Oz really brought home for our family. I’m going to start with the 1930’s movie, but keep a look out for Lessons from the original Frank…
Want your Kids to Enjoy Reading this Summer?
Pick a theme to focus your summer reading as a family Summer is fast approaching, and you know what that means…. We’re going to struggle as parents to keep our kids occupied without resorting to screens, at least not too…
My Kids are in Love with The Wizard of Oz
5 Ways you can use what your children are really into to your advantage Lately, my children have been obsessed with all things Wizard of Oz. The little one was the catalyst for this particular marathon viewing session. He saw…
2019 Book Challenge for Kids: The Series Edition
Ever struggle with how to get the young people in your life to read consistently? You can’t go wrong with a series of books. I’d like for us to challenge ourselves and the kids in our lives to read through…