*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on CNBC. Piggy banks might be on the endangered species list, yet your kids still need to learn about money. They’re handling a lot of it. Kids ages 4 to 14 received an average $454 in allowance over the course of 2017, in…
Splink 1: Excuses, Excuses Play the “Excuses Game” (a good game to play while riding in the car). The first person should give a command to be obeyed (put on your shoes, take the dog outside, take out the trash, do your homework, clean your room, etc.) Everyone else must think of an excuse why…
I saw myself on the screen the other night. I wasn’t on the jumbotron at the baseball game. I wasn’t starring in a home movie. No, I saw myself in a movie character. An unlikely one. And the irony is that it was the antagonist of a movie that I watched years ago. I have become the bad…
I love to live on the edge. At least that is what I tell my kids when they are all frustrated with me. I am that person. That person that drives until the “E” light in my car has been shining at me for about 30 miles. It doesn’t help that now my car…
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As parents, we all want our kids to develop good habits. We hope they will do difficult things, learn perseverance and speak the truth. We have a list of a thousand things we hope for them, but how to we help them build those habits? What does that process look like? I think that instead…
Is it my age? My experience? Is it good old common sense? Or, is some combination of all three? I haven’t yet figured out where its coming from, but “it” is the way that I’m teetering very close to telling parents to buck the trend and love your kids by keeping the smartphone out of…
What better way to start off a new year than with a Year in Review list. The best of the best all at once! Top 5 Blog Posts from 2017 1. 5 RULES WE GAVE OUR 13-YEAR-OLD WHEN SHE JOINED INSTAGRAM Read This 2. THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR KIDS IS LEAVE…
Splink 1:Make a promise to your kids, but make them wait for the fulfillment of it. (Tell them today and “fulfill” the promise on Saturday.) Ideas for promises: I will take you to get a toy from Dollar Tree. I will take you to get ice cream. I will allow you to stay up late…
I grew up as a preacher’s kid. My parents made a couple of things clear: 1. They wanted me to read the Bible. 2. They wanted me to memorize Scripture. So they did what any sensible parents would do to develop those habits in me . . . They paid…