Category: Kids
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Counting Down to the End of School
We have 7.5 days of school left here in Switzerland and the boys are counting down. I am counting down too, but instead of checking the calendar 18 times a day and jumping around the house shouting about how I’m almost free like they are I am coming up with strategies on how to save…
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I’m PUBLISHED!!!
So about a month ago I sent in an outline to a sort of “request for proposals” on an online parenting journal called A Fine Parent. It was accepted and I wrote the article. Well, today it was published!!! Here it is!! http://afineparent.com/emotional-intelligence/active-listening.html I am incredibly proud of it as it combines my MA degree…
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Raising Gritty Kids
What is Grit? I was first introduced to the concept of “grit” while watching the movie True Grit. If you haven’t seen it, 14-year-old Mattie Ross leaves her home in Illinois alone to find the man who killed her father in Arkansas. She finds Rooster Cogburn and declares him the man with the “grit” necessary…
Mindy Carlson 