After reading Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood: Practical Parenting from Birth to Six Years, the first thing that I did was clean a shelf in our toy closet to display those things taken away. Boy do we have a collection! Let me back up and tell you what I learned. First of all, before reading this book, toy clean up time was either ...
Impressing on Children
Forgiveness
I love the simplicity of this activity that I came up with to discuss forgiveness. Gather black pompoms and print off the Heart Template. Discuss that sin is the bad choices we make. Sin is like black spots on our heart. Take turns naming a sin that we struggle with (lying, stealing, having a bad attitude, etc.) and place a ...
Turning Impossible Into Possible, Part 2
Yesterday, I invited you into my world of creating my own New Year Resolutions...I mean goals. I was excited to find an article by Joan Esherick entitled "Resolution Solutions: 6 Great Ways to Make Your Goals Stick". In the article she lists six suggestions to turn impossible into possible. Be specific Be realistic Include a way ...
Candy Cane Poem
If this is your first visit to our blog, welcome! We hope that you will stay awhile and check out the rest of Our Out-of-Sync Life blog, as well as our Preschool Curriculum website - ABCJesusLovesMe.com. Thanks for stoppingby! I fell in love with this poem I found on a coloring sheet that Sweet Pea and Little Man did at ...
Christmas Countdown
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Practice Makes Perfect?
Little Man struggles to get into his car seat. Oh, it's not because he can't. It is because he gets distracted from all of the buttons, gadgets, insects, items on the floor - basically, you name it - on the way to his seat. (Remember my posts about Spirited Children?") So a few mornings ago, we practiced getting in and out of the van. With the ...
ABCJLM Curriculum Update
If you are following the curriculum by date, this is week 9 - review week - of the ABC Jesus Loves Me curriculum. I wanted to give an update on how it is going for our family. Due to where birthdays fall, we are using the 3 Year Curriculum for both Sweet Pea and Little Man along with the writing of the 4 Year Curriculum. We just finished ...
A New Set of Challenges
Little Man is a challenge. At two, he could drive me to need professional help. Honestly, the problem is that he is too smart. He has the vocabulary and understanding of a child twice his age. But the impulse control of a 15 month old. No lie. In Colossians 3:21 it says: Fathers, do not exasperate your children, that they may not lose ...
Craft: 10 Lepers
If this is your first visit to our blog, welcome! We hope that you will stay awhile and check out the rest of Parenting to Impress blog as well as our Free Preschool Curriculum website - ABCJesusLovesMe.com. Thanks for stopping by! When teaching the Bible to children, I constantly try to think of ways to make the story applicable and age ...
What the First Week of Kindergarten Taught Me
Last week was Bubs' first full week of Kindergarten. To say that he was exhausted would be an understatement. So say that he loves Kindergarten would be another understatement. Looking back over this week, I have been thinking about how I did on preparing Bubs for this huge step in his life. Is there something that I should have done ...