ABC Jesus Loves Me A precious Mom emailed me about using the ABCJLM curriculum with a toddler. Here was my response. Little Man is a toddler. He participates in "school time" during the Bible story, song time, memory verse and the other fun activities that are appropriate for his age. For example in the 3 Year Curriculum Week 1 - Little Man ...
Parenting to Impress Blog...
...A sister site to ABCJesusLovesMe
Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Deuteronomy 6:7
FAQ: Beginning ABCJLM Mid-Year
One of the most frequently asked questions that I receive is the one about starting the ABCJLM curriculum in the middle of the year. I wanted to cover this topic as I know several people are looking for a preschool curriculum to begin in January. All four of the ABCJesusLovesMe Curricula are created to be flexible. Although they are designed to ...
Swimming in the Winter
During this Christmas season, it is easy to lose sight of the precious little time that we have with our little ones. We get wrapped up in the busyness and forget about the blessings running around underfoot. Last night, I declared "Girls' Night." After supper, Sweet Pea and I headed behind closed doors and spent some quality time together. We ...
Guest Post: Book Review Room for a Little One
I love getting emails from you! Questions, comments, and suggestions help me help you! Anne sent me an email suggesting a Christmas book. Here is her review: Room for a Little One: A Christmas Tale The kind ox is keeping warm in his stable by the inn. One by one, animals looking to get out of the cold come to his stable and he kindly ...
NO!
Sweet Peas' favorite word - sometimes - is NO! When asked to do something or go somewhere or any other request can result in a firm "no!" if the mood fits. This is very common for the toddler age but common or not - it gets really ignoring! Here is one thing that we have done with some success. Say "no" back when requests are made of you. ...
Review: The Well-Behaved Child
The Well-Behaved Child: Discipline That Really Works By John Rosemond / Thomas Nelson Written by family psychologist John Rosemond, The Well-Behaved Child offers practical solutions for behavior issues of children ages three to twelve. Based on the biblical concept that respect for others, not self esteem, is the way to raise emotionally stable ...
The Honeymoon is Over
Is your marriage not what you want it to be? Do you desire it to be better?Click over to our sister site: Interrupted Expectations and read my newest post. ...
Letter Progression Worksheets
One of the newest items to the ABCJLM website is the Letter Progression Worksheets. While working with Bubs on writing his lowercase letters, I found that we made great gains when I showed him the connection between similar letters. Instead of having to learn 26 letters, he learned a few groups and the task wasn't near as daunting. I have not ...
Updated Tracing Worksheets
I haven't been happy with the tracing worksheets on the ABCJesusLovesMe website. So, I finally had the to time update most of them. You will notice that the worksheets now come in four types and the lines are colored. Let me back up...Bubs works on his letters with his OT each week. After getting a strong handle on the uppercase letters, he ...
Not What We Expected
After the wonderful test results from Bubs' nine months of OT, both the OT and I were sure that he would test out of OT after one year. Being the beginning of Sept, Miss W. did the Developmental Test with Bubs to see where ee stood. To our surprise, he either stayed the same or went down on the scoring. We are shocked. This said, we will be ...