Enriching the Soil of Your Life
Have you ever watched a child regress after their shots or know someone’s child who has?
[Sometimes at night I think about things I feel are important to write about in this present cultural climate. Things I wish I knew. Other things I (as an older women, old-style RN, researcher and mother) would want young parents to know so they can be armed with knowledge. One of them is what to do should your child or a friends start to regress after shots. There IS something you can do!]
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Updated 1/2019.
Having been a child myself in the early 50s, there are classic books I feel should never be neglected in a child’s reading repertoire.
With the exception of a handful I did not list here, these were the stuff of our children’s early homeschool reading aloud experience. They are all still around and available today because they strike a chord in all who read them – parent and child alike.
They set an enriching foundation in the heart and mind of children age 2 through 7 or 8. In my opinion, reading aloud should continue even after a child has mastered reading on his or her own and beyond.
Parent – be honest – you’ve only got so much time for reading aloud with your children! The last thing you want to do is choose a dud. If you are new to this, I hope this reading list makes the choosing easier and provides many delightful reading hours for you and your child! Enjoy!
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Just a quick, short post for those families and individuals that may not have seen what was called “an urgent recall notice” on Infant Ibuprofen dated Dec. 5, 2018.
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When I was in first grade, Mrs. Scherger, my soon-to-be 2nd grade teacher told me, “Here at Trinity, we learn cursive in 2nd grade, so starting next year, you’ll be able to read anything written by anyone, even the Constitution.” That was an exciting, mysterious prospect to me because at that time all I knew was the print in my readers.
Now, under the Common Core State Standards Initiative for “best educational practices”, it states that “cursive is no longer required to be taught” and instead will be replaced by keyboarding.
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I share another important post by homeschool mom Michelle Caskey (with permission) because we both want to encourage and inspire you as you learn to relate to your boys.
Contrary to popular opinion in our modern society, boys think, see, hear and process very differently than girls. This isn’t to say that men are better than women or vice versa. Just different. And we would be wise to recognize these differences and to celebrate them rather than trying to pretend that they aren’t there or trying to make them go away….
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Tylenol is the most reached for medicine by today’s parents for young children when discomfort or fever strikes. And it’s use is frequently encouraged by many pediatricians. Tylenol is the generic trade name in the U.S. whereas Paracetamol is the name in the UK, both known as acetaminophen.
Now, a major peer-reviewed study of over 20,000 children in the European Journal of Public Health suggests that giving this popular medicine, even as infrequently as once per year, leads to a high chance of those children developing permanent, life-threatening asthma.
That’s a lot of children and a lot of harm!…
